No, I'm Swedish. Sadly I've mostly travelled in the North/West/East, like Germany, Britain, the old East Bloc and of course Norden.

The typical word for southern Europe is probably "catholic", which is supposed to mean rather traditional and sometimes indeed also a bit backward, unfair as it often is. Not that say, Bavaria or Northern Italy is backward nor poor, but a typical Swede probably thinks Catholic equals Papal which in turn they think equals dubious progressiveness.