In class on Wednesday, someone had mentioned that Southern people were generally more pleasant and nice. Last semester I did a research paper on crime in the United States. What I found was that people from the South are more violent than people from the North or West. And it wasn't just southern states. In northern cities that had a high number of southern people also had a high volume of crime. Also, I found that education in the south seems to glorify crime and violence.
When I did this paper the first thing that came to mind was Texas. However, when I think of the south I don't include Texas. Usually I think of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana. But when I think of Texas and violence, two words come to mind: capital punishment. Sitting here contemplating it now I think of horror stories and movies, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is supposedly based on a true story.
According to the little bit of research I did on this topic, the correlation of violence and location can be traced back to England. People from certain parts (I'm not sure which) immigrated to the southern part of the United States, while people from other parts immigrated to northern US.
If anyone is interested the book that I used for this research was called Albion's Seed.
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Shannon, I found your comment about the violence being traced back to England so interesting because that is what we discussed in class yesterday, with regard to the Fitzhugh excerpt. What did you think about this?
That is soo funny. When I think about the south I think of Souther Hospitality. So to me its funny that you mention that crime is higher in the south. I also read that kidnapping is higher in the south. So it makes you think "is the southern hospitatility a way to cover the bad habits like violence in the south?
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