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Southern short tracks haven't been the bread and butter of the schedule for 40-50 years though. Also, Kansas and Kentucky don't exactly seem culturally out of place.
Phoenix is apparently doing well enough that they consider the remodel to be justified. Las Vegas has the Busch brothers. And California is down to two races. I think back in the '70s, between Riverside and Ontario, they had as many as four races out there; I'd have to check if NASCAR ever visited Hanford back then.
So it seems like if there was going to be a mass alienation like that, it would have happened before even that famous CBS broadcast of the 1979 Daytona 500. And of course, the flip of the coin is that the series wouldn't have been commercially viable as a major, nationwide entity unless it did branch out significntly beyond the old South.
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