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?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It depends. Answer this question: What was the name of the war between the Union and Confederacy that started in 1861 and ended in 1865?

If you say "Civil War", you are a yankee. A civil war is a war over the control of a country. The South never sought to control the North, only it's own fate.

If you say "The War of Northern Agression", welcome brother.

[HeadOn]

Southerners, it seems, are brimming over with cortisone and testosterone

I'll go along with that, and all that it implies...

[babyface00]

What if you say "War Between the States"?

[mrs. a]

I don't know, I always heard it referred to as "The War of the Southern Rebellion." ;-)

[Intolerant in NJ]

Nothing new - in his Vietnam: the Necessary War Michael Lind spends several pages discussing the "ethnoregional theory of American politics" which holds that there are essentially three basic political cultures in the US based on waves of immigration and where they settled - the northern tier of the country (Yankee), the Pennsylvania region (Quakers), and the Southern coastal area (Cavaliers) - Of course in his discussion Lind is balanced and points out some of the maybe not-so-admirable qualities of the northerners, which the lefties on the Michigan campus might not have wanted to deal with - such as that they can be moralistic, isolationist, and anti-military. Lind cites a similar study as this, in which "white southern students were more likely to respond aggressively than white northern students to the same set of insults and provocations", and goes on "the same researchers have pointed out the similarities between the culture of honor of white southerners and that of inner-city black Americans, most of whom are descendents of southern migrants".....

[Howlin]

"Up North we do it different".

Best bumper sticker I ever saw:

We don't give a DAMN how you do it up North.

[babyface00]

To any Southerners (Southroners) out there...

Is WV considered "the South" or "the North"? (I know which side of "the war" they were on, but many of the inhabitants seem "Southerly" to this (Ohio) Northerner.)

(I was just down there over the weekend)

[Between the Lines]

That's according to eggheads at the University of Michigan, where shrinks wandered down corridors bumping into students and calling them names.

I wonder if any of these names refered with their southern heritage.

[mathluv]

I always thought a 'damnyankee' was ine who came to visit the south and then moved in.

[Pyro7480]

I say neither. I say "The War Between the States," because that is factual as well.

[Calpublican]

That sounds reasonable - except how does it explain Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards and Jimmy Carter?

Easy--they're a bunch of phonies.

[lowbridge]

THE SOUTH - LIKE IT OR WE'LL KICK YOUR A$$!

[Amelia]

I always thought a 'damnyankee' was ine who came to visit the south and then moved in.

Yeah, and then tries to tell us how it was so much better the way they did it up North......

[Sunshine Sister]

Ten paces, two paces, you are safe from me. I couldn't hit a barn with a howitzer at 10 feet.

[TAP ONLINE]

Sir, I'll have you know I was born south of the Mason Dixon line. (Baltimore MD :)

;)

My momma is from the hills of North Carolina (Wilkes County) and my dad is a true southerner (Southern Italy).

I lived in SC 3 years ( served gr its, backbone and rice, and Sweet Tea (rot your teeth sweet)in our Restaurtant.

Note Grits is two syllables.

[Feckless]

This is true. While stationed at Ft. Dix I almost had to fight a waitress half my age because I couldn't quit calling her "ma'am". I finally told her my Daddy's backhand still scared me more than anything she could do.

[billbears]

Good question. Technically they are yankees, however the attention they seem to receive in the media always paints them as Southerners. I worked with a boy from WV who moved down here and I don't know, he just had too much of a Pennsylvania/Ohio attitude in him. OTOH, I worked with a guy from MN and I swear except for his accent (he sounded funny) he was right open to learning history instead of that crap passed off as history in government propaganda centers (public schools)

Now if we're talking Ohio, I've known a few Ohioans and I have never met one that wasn't trying to be the most arrogant, god forsaken yankee imaginable.

[ruppertdog]

because we are polite and don't put up with poor behavior like Yankees do. It is called "southern hospitality"

[TAP ONLINE]

And a "Dumb Damn Yankee" is a man who pays the asking price for the house or land he buys from that poor "uneducated" southerner.

[Ditto]

Yankees have no balls.

Come on up to my neighborhood and tell the boys that --- it you have the balls.