I think Southerners just expect a little more privacy than Northerners. Not all Yankees are bad, but there is a differance in what is acceptable behavior from one region to another, what might be the norm in New York, might be considered rude in Birmingham, and vice versa. It doesn't mean that one is wrong, just unexpected, and instinctivly different=bad.
All y'all who flash a gun and scare away your neibors, you've just got some whimpy neibors. Everyone around here has guns... lots of them. That would be more likely to just give them an excuse to come out of the woodwork and talk to you here.