re: What thing from your state are you most embarrassed about?

Yep that does it. Those images from my childhood still make me ill. My mother had to work to help put food on the the table so we had a lady who stayed with us. She ate lunch at the kitchen table where we ate and used the same facilities. Yet I knew people like those in "The Help."
She used to tell me to go to the back of the yard and if I could fill my little basket with blackberries she would make she and I a cobbler and we could eat it all before my older brother and sisters got home from school.
We lived in the country far away from all that, yet I remember the scenes from the old B&W rabbit ears like it was yesterday. Sad to say I know people who seem to wish for those days back.