"Lying skunk"? Impressive chutzpah in rodomontade, coming from someone who just got pantsed in the act of fibbing himself, claiming he didn't indulge in sectional invective when, in fact, he did.
I didn't challenge your educational credentials, just the credibility and precision of your ad hominem argument about Southern chattel slavery: endogamous in, peculiar to, particularly vicious, and blah, blah, blah.
You slurred, you fibbed, you got caught. Veni, vidi, vici.
Congratulations on the SAT score, though; don't know what year you sat for your SAT, but my 1960's score (on the old scale, with lower scores) was 677 verbal + 677 math (kind of an anomaly), putting me at the 99th and 97th percentiles respectively that year, or the 97th and 92nd percentiles of high-school graduates who entered college. I sat for my GRE in 1973, four years out of college and three months into grad school, and placed at the 76th percentile among fellow majors, the 91st percentile in quant, and 80 points off the top of the chart in verbal, or about 120 points better than the 98th percentile. Since we're comparing Scout badges and all, there are mine. Too bad I didn't make it to Webelo.
I didn't have a minor in my undergrad studies but took some history (four or five courses' worth), German, and Latin and did some self-directed reading in classical history and comparative grammar (Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon: the foundations of English). I garnered six credits toward my master's at Oklahoma after my Navy service but had to go to work when my target institution, the University of Miami (in Coral Gables), jacked up their graduate tuition about 100% to get rid of people like me.
It's probably just as well: once the theoretical work has been done (by Emiliani, in the 60's), chronostratigraphy tends to turn into a lot of laboratory drudge work .
My interest in chronostratigraphy had been tweaked by some exposure to Emiliani's oxygen-isotope work and its relevance to the Milankovich Cycle, with a view to fine-tuning an estimated date for the end of the current (warm) interglacial and a return to pleniglacial conditions -- a subject that is an area of three-way discourse among climatologists and meteorologists, oceanographers, and geologists. In other words, I was as interested in getting a Master of Disaster degree as an MS. But such was not to be.
So there are my humble attainments in the world of study. Humble enough for you?
I apologize for calling you a "lying skunk" since I should not let these discussions provoke me to insult.
However it is false that I have any sectional animousity being from the South and having most of my loved ones from the South. It is true that I have extreme animousity toward the ruling class of the Slaverocracy and see few examples of a more inhuman social structure as existed there in 1860. Most of my disgust is because of the damage they caused the South.
My feeling would be the same if the North had been the Slavers and the South anti-slavery. Nor is my statement about the particularly vicious nature of it false. Another aspect of history which makes it worse is that it came about after Christianity became dominant in the West. Thus, even if the evil were equal in Rome and Richmond the latter would be worse since its inhabitants should know better from being Christianized.
There is no anomaly in your scores since those who entered college would be expected to have higher scores than those who didn't and thus the comparision to the former would result in a lower percentile than comparision to the whole who took the test. Mine were 1964. Graduate scores 1973.
I had no doubt you were sufficiently educated.