Culture Is Essential by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
An excerpt from Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
The American South has long been more violent than the North. Colorful descriptions of duels, feuds, bushwhackings, and lynchings feature prominently in visitors’ accounts, newspaper articles, and autobiographies from the eighteenth century onward. Statistics bear out these impressions. For example, over the period 1865–1915, the homicide rate in the South was ten times the current rate for the whole United States, and twice the rate in our most violent cities. Modern homicide statistics tell the same story.
In their book, Culture of Honor, psychologists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen argue that the South is more violent than the North because southern people have culturally acquired beliefs about personal honor that are different from their northern counterparts. Southerners, they argue, believe more strongly than Northerners that a person’s reputation is important and worth defending even at great cost. As a consequence, arguments and confrontations that lead to harsh words or minor scuffles in Amherst or Ann Arbor often escalate to lethal violence in Asheville or Austin.
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Nisbett and Cohen support their hypothesis with an impressive range of evidence. Let’s start with statistical patterns of violence. In the rural and small-town South, murder rates are elevated for arguments among friends and acquaintances, but not for killings committed in the course of other felonies. In other words, in the South men are more likely than Northerners to kill an acquaintance when an argument breaks out in a bar, but they are no more likely to kill the guy behind the counter when they knock off a liquor store. Thus, Southerners seem to be more violent than other Americans only in situations that involve personal honor. Competing hypotheses don’t do so well: neither white per-capita income nor hot climate nor history of slavery explain this variation in homicide. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/712842.html
You disrespectin' me? I fuckin' represent!
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
Most Peaceful States...............Least Peaceful States
10) Iowa.................................10) Mississippi
9) Rhode Island......................9) South Carolina
8) Hawaii................................8) Arkansas
7) Washington........................7) Texas
6) North Dakota.....................6) Missouri
5) Utah...................................5) Arizona
4) Minnesota..........................4) Florida
3) New Hampshire..................3) Nevada
2) Vermont.............................2) Tennessee
1) Maine.................................1) Louisiana
Many demographicals listed for why some are more peaceful than others. What commonalities/differences does the IGx brain trust see that the article misses (or doesn't dare state)?
Only #7? The queers in Austin must be holding us back.
This explains why SEC and Big XII college football is dominant.
In White Liberals & Black Rednecks, Thomas Sowell argues that the Scots-Irish Honor Culture of the South was adopted by Southern Blacks, who carried it North in the early/mid-1900's.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?
No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.
So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.
Stupid lib.
There are states listed among the most peaceful that have liberal gun laws so that can't be the answer. Thanks for trying though.
Sarcasm detector sounds broken.
Sorry, ovulating...breastseses are swollen and I'm crying more than usual. YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE, A HEARTLESS ASSHOLE WHO DOESN'T APPRECIATE ME! Wait, I'm sorry. I never should have said that to you *sniff sniff*.
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
johno wrote:
"Honor culture" also explains the disproportionate military contributions by the South.
BS. It is more a function of job and educational opportunities. WTF else are you going to do down in Retardland?
Sorry Cleaner but most New Yowrkers are more likely to get in a life and death over a parking space or being called a nigger than do the same for his country.
Southern honor trumps Yankee honor any day. I have lived in the South and the North.
(We would probably agree on RedneKKKs though.)
"God forbid we tell the savages to go fuck themselves." Batboy
cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?
No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.
So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.
Stupid lib.
LOL....Cleaner also has a multi-year IGx history of hating on the dark-colored, ghettolicious versions of societal trash. He just muted it a little when Barry got elected. Nobody knows how to hate better than a (white) Lib....nobody.
cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?
No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.
So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.
Stupid lib.
LOL....Cleaner also has a multi-year IGx history of hating on the dark-colored, ghettolicious versions of societal trash. He just muted it a little when Barry got elected. Nobody knows how to hate better than a (white) Lib....nobody.
HopeChange® is a hell of a drug.
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