Southerners Know How to React

NewsMax.com ^ | 07/30/03

[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?

[Labyrinthos]

You got me laughing.

[krb]

These Yankees who waste taxpayer dollars to conduct studies to "prove" something that they assumed never cease to humor me.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Then my work here is done.

[zoen]

whooped your butt. :o) I have family down that way and I still give a hard time. So there!

[bk1000]

'As in, "Dont's youse dare grits your teeth at me!"'


"Soitenly!"

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I think this is crap - it was probably another skewed research project. They don't say exactly WHAT was said to the people in the hallway - a simple comment or a threat -

It also doesn't mention if a female was threatened or insulted and a man with her responded angrily...... Southern men are known for defending the honor of ladies (when they can find a lady that is......lol)........

[Phantom Lord]

I can't believe a stupid ass article from NewsMax has stir such trouble and gotten so many replies.

[Constitution Day]

You know how it is.
Some people are just wound WAY too tight!

Or maybe it's just that they know you are a "satanic Metallica freak"... LOL!

[sweetliberty]

Ping!

[wizardhill]

AMEN Brother tell it like should be told

[wizardhill]

Not just yet Yankees 1 Southerns 0 but it's only halftime Stick that in your pipe and smoke it

[wizardhill]

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said Teach a yankee how to drive point his car north

[Southern-by-the-grace-of-god]

hey now hes funkin right

[Southern-by-the-grace-of-god]

hey the south and southerners are the most polite and nice people around we may also have our bad ass side but we have the best manners no one out side of the south can compare to or do better than