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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: Phantom Lord
That sounds reasonable - except how does it explain Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards and Jimmy Carter?They're democrats.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:28:00 AM PDT
by
aomagrat
(IYAOYAS)
To: Phantom Lord
Overreact?!? OVERREACT?!? All right, now I'm p!$$ed!
Where's my rifle?
To: Phantom Lord
I've never seen that one!
To: shuckmaster; stainlessbanner
"I'll kick your ass" Dixie ping!!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:28:47 AM PDT
by
TomServo
("One good thing about the apocalypse -- always plenty of parking.")
To: All
We also say "thank you", "you're welcome" , hold doors open, and help little old ladies across the street...............
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:29:20 AM PDT
by
labowski
To: Phantom Lord; Howlin
I don't think southerners are the ones with the problem. From the study, it is obviously the idiots who wander down corridors bumping into southerners and calling them names. People from Michigan (and others who have no manners) may think this the norm.
To: rintense
And yo' lil dog, too!
To: Phantom Lord
Calling ME violent? I'll kick your @$$ for that! ;^)
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:31:29 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: rrrod
Question: to be called "yankee," does one just have to live in the areas designated as "not the South," or do you have to be condescending and arrogant along with that? ;-) (For the record, I'm a native of northern Delaware, but now live in Virginia.)
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
To: Phantom Lord
Time ta bust out the tar arn and break bad!
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:32:47 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Chain mail...check. Kevlar vest...Check. Leather Gloves...Check. Begin running the cats bathwater...)
To: Howlin
Of course, some of us don't really give a #*$% what a bunch of damnyankees think.....
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:33:52 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Right! What the heck kind of test is that???
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:33:58 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: labowski
...a kick the asses of any Yankee who dares to say, "Up North we do it different".
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:36:31 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Phantom Lord
Perhaps its becausethe word a**hole is thrown around so commonly amongst the yankees that the offensive word gets filtered out, ignored like so much background noise.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:36:36 AM PDT
by
Cooter
To: Hatteras
"That's according to eggheads at the University of Michigan"Well, bless their hearts...
;^)
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:36:48 AM PDT
by
jla
To: Phantom Lord
mumble, grumble, mumble, shotgun...
grumble, mumble...
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:36:53 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: Pyro7480
Question: to be called "yankee," does one just have to live in the areas designated as "not the South," or do you have to be condescending and arrogant along with that? If you're condescending and arrogant, you're a 'damnyankee'. ;-)
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:37:01 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Phantom Lord
This corn is special, ain't it?
To: TAP ONLINE
Yes, but the Confederates killed Yanks at a rate of 2 to 1. Thank your stars for an endless parade of unwitting immigrants to fill the roles.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:40:25 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom!)
To: Constitution Day
If you have never seen that episode you have missed one of the classics. After continually challenging people to duels and no one accepting, a southern gentleman finally accepts and Homer flees town and escapes to the old family farm. He can't grow anything so he fertilizes the fields with plutonium! Over night the fields fill with tomato plants. Problem is, they contain huge amounts of nicotine and taste like tobacco! Hence the name Tomacco.
It is one of the best episodes ever.
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posted on
07/30/2003 11:40:39 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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