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Southerners Know How to React
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| 07/30/03
Posted on 07/30/2003 11:09:59 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
Southerners Know How to React
Watch out who you call a nasty name - he might be a Southerner, and y'all will be in a heap o' trouble.
Southerners, it seems, are brimming over with cortisone and testosterone, and they tend to be quick on the trigger. That's according to eggheads at the University of Michigan, where shrinks wandered down corridors bumping into students and calling them names.
Students from the South reacted far more violently and aggressively than those from the North, and "in tests regularly suggested more belligerent solutions to problems," writes Britain's Spectator magazine.
At the root of it all is the nearly vanished concept of honor, which appears to be thriving south of the Mason-Dixon line.
The Michigan experiments demonstrated that Southerners "retain two vital aspects of the old honour system: a high degree of sensitivity to insults and a tendency to respond with violence and aggression," according to Spectator.
That sounds reasonable - except how does it explain Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards and Jimmy Carter?
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: dixie; dixielist; manners; south; southerners; violence
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To: Constitution Day
You violent bastard!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:10:47 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Phantom Lord
I think this presumes they are MEN first
To: Phantom Lord
"That's according to eggheads at the University of Michigan"Well, bless their hearts...
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:12:44 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: Phantom Lord
Who you callin' violent, ya damn Yankee??
Don't make me come up there!
To: Phantom Lord
Now that a
F%$#@&^ lie!! we don't overreact...wheres my G*&-%$#@ gun....
To: Phantom Lord
I have to say, as a southerner, I take offense at this study. This really pisses me off to no end!!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:14:57 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Constitution Day
Yankees have no balls.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:15:18 AM PDT
by
Tom D.
To: Frank_Discussion
;-P
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:15:27 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Phantom Lord
We also don't react well to articles that have already been posted.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:16:09 AM PDT
by
ChadsDad
(scuse ME)
To: Phantom Lord
Sir, you have insulted my honor!
It's pistols at 10 paces for us.
To: Phantom Lord
Isn't it a genetic thing from Scottish heritage?
Don't flame me, I'm one of 'em.
To: Constitution Day; dixiechick2000; Amelia; YaYa123; eddie willers; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ...
At the root of it all is the nearly vanished concept of honor, which appears to be thriving south of the Mason-Dixon line. Enough said!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:20:53 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Phantom Lord
Guess I'm a red-neck in yank's clothes...if someone, for any reason at all, purposely "bumps" me...I call that assalut and open up a can o' infantry on 'im.
14
posted on
07/30/2003 11:20:59 AM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(Anyone that would dare protest peace-weenies by themselves is a friend of mine)
To: Hatteras
Well, bless their hearts...LOL!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:22:07 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Calvinism, it's not just a good idea, but Scripturaly correct!)
To: Constitution Day
Ever see The Simpson's where Homer kept challenging people to a Duel? One of my favorite episodes.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:23:49 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Phantom Lord
LOL! That one is a classic. It's the one where Homer created "tomacco."
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:25:00 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
To: All
Well then, Kiss my Grits!!!!!!!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:26:07 AM PDT
by
labowski
To: Tom D.
True, all their balls (cannon, that is ) were used in the great war of the northern agression.
PS They won, by the way.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:27:32 AM PDT
by
TAP ONLINE
(Url is at top. Interesting article.)
To: Pyro7480
next yankee that calls me violent is gonna be tossed down my out house!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:27:52 AM PDT
by
rrrod
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