I lived in the South longer than I've lived in the Bay Area and I can tell you why I feel that the Bay Area's culture is better for technology (this goes for the midwest as well).
In many places like the South (and Mid-West), most people tend to say variants of "Why?", "That's stupid", "That's crazy"; when you tell them what ridiculous, nonsensical or seemingly useless thing you want to build. Here in Bay Area more people say, "Why not? That sounds fun." and they either help you build it or fund it. Yeah a lot of times the things built here are crazy and make no sense... but sometimes, sometimes you end up with a Google.
Of course I could be wrong, since places like Atlanta have institutions like Georgia Tech. Maybe things have changed (or will change) like in New York? ...but I haven't seen strong evidence of that yet.
In many places like the South (and Mid-West), most people tend to say variants of "Why?", "That's stupid", "That's crazy"; when you tell them what ridiculous, nonsensical or seemingly useless thing you want to build. Here in Bay Area more people say, "Why not? That sounds fun." and they either help you build it or fund it. Yeah a lot of times the things built here are crazy and make no sense... but sometimes, sometimes you end up with a Google.
Of course I could be wrong, since places like Atlanta have institutions like Georgia Tech. Maybe things have changed (or will change) like in New York? ...but I haven't seen strong evidence of that yet.