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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: Labyrinthos
"...you do what has to get done, even if that means long days and nights, because if you turn work away today, it may not be there next month."At that rate, neither will you. Pity...
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posted on
07/31/2003 12:54:40 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: Labyrinthos
You would have to be a fool to eat a bagel in the south.
One would be equally foolish to order grits in NYC
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posted on
07/31/2003 12:57:02 PM PDT
by
bk1000
To: Labyrinthos
Do I have a chance as a southern gentleman?If you aspire to transform yourself into an antiquated caricature a la Rhett Butler, give it your best shot bubba.
Thats a show Im sure the locals would enjoy.
: )
To: Freebird Forever
If you aspire to transform yourself into an antiquated caricature a la Rhett Butler, give it your best shot bubba. Thats a show Im sure the locals would enjoy.Frankly Freebird, I don't give a damn.
To: bk1000
One would be equally foolish to order grits in NYC.As in, "Dont's youse dare grits your teeth at me!"
To: labowski
We also say "thank you", "you're welcome" , hold doors open, and help little old ladies across the street...............And that fits in with what the researchers would expect, considering they attributed the aggression to a peculiar concept of "honor" that is no doubt foreign to them.
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posted on
07/31/2003 4:40:46 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: maxplunder
Ping!
247
posted on
07/31/2003 7:34:09 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: aomagrat
"They're democrats." ROTFL! Good answer.
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posted on
07/31/2003 7:36:47 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Howlin
"We don't give a DAMN how you do it up North." Hehe....I have that one. I saw another one the other day that I really liked. It had the Confederate flag on the left and on the right it said:
.
"MY HERITAGE YOUR IGNORANCE"
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:32:40 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: sweetliberty
Do you know where to get those????????
250
posted on
07/31/2003 8:33:27 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: lowbridge
251
posted on
07/31/2003 8:35:27 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Howlin
We have a little shop here near Harrison, Arkansas called the General's Mercantile. They have loads of southern stuff and a LOT of bumper stickers. As far as I know they don't have a website, but I found
this. Delightful place to browse. It is run by a couple of Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:42:41 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: sweetliberty
Sons of the Confederacy? Or is this something else???
When I finally found my great great great great great grandfather and mother, there was a beautiful plaque on their graves put there by the S of the C.......very impressive!
Thanks for the link!
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:45:13 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: sweetliberty
I am SO wrong, now that I think about it. The plaque was from the Sons of the American Revolution. My ggggg grandfather served with George Washington during the Revolution.
But I had MANY relatives that served the Confederacy!
254
posted on
07/31/2003 8:49:41 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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To: Howlin
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:54:11 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Phantom Lord
This reminds me of the joke about the southerner that went to Harvard. His first day there he asked an upper-classman where the library was at. The upper-classman rudely pointed out that ending a sentence with a preposition was poor grammar. "Fine," said the southerner, "Do you know where the library is at, EXPLETIVE?"
To: Howlin
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:58:25 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Labyrinthos
That's because the south still lacks first class cities.You lie! Why, just this afternoon I drove through the first class cities of Sugar Hill, Oakwood and Flowery Branch.
To: Labyrinthos
Maybe the problem lies with the premise of the original article that was posted that suggested that southerners are more agggressive and thin-skinned than their northern counterparts.Don't be obtuse. Maybe the problem lies in the fact that your first post on this (good-natured) thread was all condescending and inappropriately contentious. Just like most Yankees.
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