On one of my many Carolina trips, there was a billboard:
With values, we don't need laws. Without values, no law we have will ever work.
Paraphrased, anyway, but that's how it works there and here. Like someone said, we revere our history and consider bad behavior an insult to our ancestry.
Except for riddling speed-limit signs with bullets. It may look like bad behavior, but really it ain't..perhaps a southern analogue to graffiti. Or rotating our lead, to keep it fresh. (Nah, it's cuz we like to BLAST things!! :))
In the south away from the cities you grow up learnin' how to make your own fun. Sometimes it borders on a bit mischievous. A couple of my cousins in Pulaski County, Kentucky were telling a story when they were around 14 and 15 years old about what they had done on a recent Saturday night to amuse themselves. They had cut down a big ole tree, felling it across the dirt road that was the only access road to the farms up in the holler. Then they hid in the woods to see what folks would do.