You have to be really ignorant to think otherwise! Why do blacks from the south have any "leftover" language? Why haven't they learn proper english after all this time? Because the people that use "ebonics" are lazy and or stupid (uneducated). Not because of ties to the south, but because of lack of parental discipline and laziness!
Seems educated black people feel the same way about ebonics!
Black American linguist John McWhorter argues that the use of the term does more to hinder black academic achievement than to help it, in that considering AAVE to be a completely different language from English serves only to widen the perceived divide between whites and blacks in America