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Just chiming in to reinforce what PhiPsiRuss and Tom Earp said about preconceptions. And to add:
Founded in the South:
Alpha Delta Pi - GA
Alpha Sigma Alpha - VA
Chi Omega - Arkansas
Delta Gamma - Mississippi
Kappa Delta -VA
Phi Mu - GA
Sigma Sigma Sigma -VA
Zeta Tau Alpha - VA
Some NPC sororities accepted certain chapters of small regional southern sororities (Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Gamma, for example) in the early part of the 20th century (roughly, in the 1900's and 19-teens) AND some southern chapters of Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Sigma Sigma were released to other sororities when ASA and SSS restricted themselves to "teachers' colleges." Two sororities especially were able to gain a southern presence relatively early in those ways:
Delta Delta Delta
Pi Beta Phi
In contrast, Delta Gamma's most prominent and successful early expansion tended to be in the Midwest (Akron, Northwestern, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska,etc. and in other regions -- Cornell, Colorado, Stanford), not really in the South.
Having said that, my personal impression is that today the more "Southern" sororities are Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, and Zeta Tau Alpha, with Alpha Omicron Pi also strongly in the running. Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, Kapa Alpha Theta, and Pi Beta Phi certainly have successful chapters in the South (as do other NPC sororities!), but they seem to me to have a more nationally-distributed assorment of chapters and a "presence," if you will, that's more national than southern.
Even in the South, sororities' presence can differ dramatically from state to state, not to mention school to school.
But the really important thing is to find a chapter on your campus where you feel comfortable.
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