Southerners are quick to anger, and not in control of their emotions

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http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt2.html

Interesting article on stuff we already inherently know.

The results were unequivocal. There are clear differences in how young men respond to being called a bad name. For some, the insult dramatically changes behavior. For some it doesn't. But the deciding factor isn't how emotionally secure you are, or whether you are an intellectual or a jock, or whether you are physically imposing or not. What matters—and I think you can guess where this is headed—is where you're from. The young men from the northern part of the United States, for the most part, treated the incident with amusement. They laughed it off. Their handshakes were unchanged. Their levels of cortisol actually went down, as if they were unconsciously trying to defuse their own anger. Only a few of them had Steve get violent with Larry.
But the southerners? Oh my. They were angry. Their cortisol and testosterone jumped. Their handshakes got firm. Steve was all over Larry.
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This is likely why all southerners like wars so much, always feel slighted or that the world is out to get them. They just are always angry and pissed off, likely because of their smaller brains.

Comedian Bill Burr talks about this too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3CHLx9Jdw#t=1m8s
 
Another source on this study: http://reason.com/archives/1997/02/01/a-matter-of-respect
The American South is more violent than any other region of the country, a distinction that has intrigued commentators on the South for at least three decades.
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Relative poverty rates cannot be ruled out as a causal factor, but the regional effect remains even when poverty is taken into account.
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there is little or no regional difference in black homicide rates, only in the white rates. So the Southern distinctiveness in homicide and violence is concentrated among small-town whites, strongly suggesting the impact of regional culture.
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Southerners and Northerners have different attitudes about violence--not across the board (as might be expected) but in certain specific areas, all of which seem linked to notions of honor and respect. Southerners, for example, are more likely to agree that violence is acceptable in defense of home and family and as a mechanism of social control, and they are especially likely to endorse violence as a response to insults and affronts, most of all when they involve women. This pattern suggests a culture in which honor threatened is honor lost and no response to the possible loss of honor is too extreme. Nisbett and Cohen note the evident similarities between this Southern code and the new culture of violence in the inner cities, where "dissing" often leads to death.
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The whole article linked in this post is great.... full of good quotes. Go read it.

 
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Sativa said:
and yet you exploded in a hissy fit last night

pot/kettle mr. darla
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Behold...ButtHurtYurt once again ignoring the thread topic to attack and belittle the poster responsible for the OP.

But he doesn't obsess over other posters and follow them from thread to thread!

Oh HELL no!
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Behold...ButtHurtYurt once again ignoring the thread topic to attack and belittle the poster responsible for the OP.

But he doesn't obsess over other posters and follow them from thread to thread!

Oh HELL no!
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and you posted to the thread topic and didn't belittle anyone

LOL

don't worry, grind will give you a pass
 
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