Comments on: The Southern Gentleman http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:17:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Raymond Ingles http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/comment-page-1/#comment-71362 Raymond Ingles Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:38:10 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/#comment-71362 Found it - the research was done by Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen. They discuss it in their book "Culture of Honor" (1997). Here's a review (which discusses the experiment I mentioned): http://www.reason.com/news/show/30124.html Found it – the research was done by Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen. They discuss it in their book "Culture of Honor" (1997). Here's a review (which discusses the experiment I mentioned): http://www.reason.com/news/show/30124.html

]]> By: Bob Stapler http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/comment-page-1/#comment-71292 Bob Stapler Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:07:09 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/#comment-71292 Aw shucks. Just when I was about to post a piece titled "You might be a conservative if ..." Now it would look like I'm plagerahiizin, pledgerizin, planerizin ... ah heck, copyin yew. You might be southern if you just can't help holding doors ... even for feminists. You might be southern if you know better than to correct your elders ... even if you ain't especially young, yourself. You might be southern if Bible quotes from a layman don't make your eyes roll up in their sockets. You might be southern if Bush bashing makes you want to scream "Give it a rest!" You might be southern if seeing the flag fly while our anthem is playing causes your hand to involuntarily rise to your heart and brings a tear to the eye. Aw shucks. Just when I was about to post a piece titled "You might be a conservative if …"
Now it would look like I'm plagerahiizin, pledgerizin, planerizin … ah heck, copyin yew.

You might be southern if you just can't help holding doors … even for feminists.

You might be southern if you know better than to correct your elders … even if you ain't especially young, yourself.

You might be southern if Bible quotes from a layman don't make your eyes roll up in their sockets.

You might be southern if Bush bashing makes you want to scream "Give it a rest!"

You might be southern if seeing the flag fly while our anthem is playing causes your hand to involuntarily rise to your heart and brings a tear to the eye.

]]> By: Raymond Ingles http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/comment-page-1/#comment-71290 Raymond Ingles Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:54:34 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/07/the-southern-gentleman/#comment-71290 Dang, I can't find it yet on the web, but there was an interesting study mentioned in David Sloan Wilson's "Evolution For Everyone" that involved men raised in the north and south of the U.S.; basically they were put in a contrived situation where they were insulted without cause. The northerners tended to laugh it off and it didn't affect their behavior in a subsequent interaction with an unrelated individual. The southerners had noticeably elevated stress ratings (as measured by saliva samples measuring levels of testosterone and cortisol) and were much more pugnacious when interacting with an unrelated individual immediately after. Southerners who weren't insulted showed no elevated stress and were just as polite as northerners (on average, of course). This apparently wasn't a genetic variance - the only significant variable found was the place where they'd spent formative years, not where there families had come from. That's about the only study I'd heard of that's found elevated testosterone in the South, though - perhaps it's a more stressful place. When I get home I'll look up the reference. Dang, I can't find it yet on the web, but there was an interesting study mentioned in David Sloan Wilson's "Evolution For Everyone" that involved men raised in the north and south of the U.S.; basically they were put in a contrived situation where they were insulted without cause. The northerners tended to laugh it off and it didn't affect their behavior in a subsequent interaction with an unrelated individual. The southerners had noticeably elevated stress ratings (as measured by saliva samples measuring levels of testosterone and cortisol) and were much more pugnacious when interacting with an unrelated individual immediately after. Southerners who weren't insulted showed no elevated stress and were just as polite as northerners (on average, of course).

This apparently wasn't a genetic variance – the only significant variable found was the place where they'd spent formative years, not where there families had come from. That's about the only study I'd heard of that's found elevated testosterone in the South, though – perhaps it's a more stressful place.

When I get home I'll look up the reference.

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