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Southerners Know How to React
NewsMax.com ^
| 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: Trailerpark Badass
You got me laughing.
To: Phantom Lord
These Yankees who waste taxpayer dollars to conduct studies to "prove" something that they assumed never cease to humor me.
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posted on
07/31/2003 9:24:45 PM PDT
by
krb
(the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
To: Labyrinthos
Then my work here is done.
To: Tom D.
whooped your butt. :o) I have family down that way and I still give a hard time. So there!
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posted on
07/31/2003 9:37:49 PM PDT
by
zoen
To: Labyrinthos
'As in, "Dont's youse dare grits your teeth at me!"'
"Soitenly!"
265
posted on
08/01/2003 4:13:18 AM PDT
by
bk1000
To: SeeRushToldU_So
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)........
To: Constitution Day
I can't believe a stupid ass article from NewsMax has stir such trouble and gotten so many replies.
267
posted on
08/01/2003 6:10:50 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Phantom Lord
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!
To: Budge
Ping!
269
posted on
08/01/2003 2:01:39 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
AMEN Brother tell it like should be told
To: TAP ONLINE
Not just yet Yankees 1 Southerns 0 but it's only halftime Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
To: Howlin
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said Teach a yankee how to drive point his car north
To: Phantom Lord
To: All
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
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