[Phantom Lord]

You violent bastard!

[freedomlover]

I think this presumes they are MEN first

[Hatteras]

"That's according to eggheads at the University of Michigan"

Well, bless their hearts...

[Frank_Discussion]

I have to say, as a southerner, I take offense at this study. This really pisses me off to no end!!

[ChadsDad]

We also don't react well to articles that have already been posted.

[Lucy Lake]

Isn't it a genetic thing from Scottish heritage?

Don't flame me, I'm one of 'em.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Guess I'm a red-neck in yank's clothes...if someone, for any reason at all, purposely "bumps" me...I call that assalut and open up a can o' infantry on 'im.

[aomagrat]

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

They're democrats.

[small_l_libertarian]

Overreact?!? OVERREACT?!? All right, now I'm p!$$ed!

Where's my rifle?

[TomServo]

"I'll kick your ass" Dixie ping!!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

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.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

And yo' lil dog, too!

[Axenolith]

Time ta bust out the tar arn and break bad!

[Cooter]

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.

[Hatteras]

mumble, grumble, mumble, shotgun... grumble, mumble...

[rockfish59]

This corn is special, ain't it?

[HeadOn]

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

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

[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".....

[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.

[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.