I'm Texan and use yellow cornmeal. Of course, Texas is not consistent about whether Texas should be considered part of the South. My husband argues that anything east of the Balcones Escarpment is South (Dallas, etc) and anything west of the Balcones Escarpment is Southwest (El Paso, etc), because that's where the soil type shifts and you wind up with totally different agriculture. My own family is more of the mindset that Texas is Texas and not comparable to anything outside of Texas.

My cornbread is definitely not sweet, though. Not at all. Corn fritters can be sweet and I don't mind, but when I bite into sweet cornbread expecting something else, I am terribly deflated. I don't do sweet tea either. These things strike me (probably unfairly) as uncowboy.