Just because a stereotype is distasteful doesn't mean it's not based in some truth. There are a loooooooooot of people here down South that fit his personality well

Kimarhi was redeemed to me when I found out how to take him through the sphere grid.

I liked everyone else, but after I played x-2, wakka started grating on me because the voice actor kinda went nuts with his accent and it sounded so terrible, then it rubbed off backwards onto ffx, and I stopped playing him as much xD