[lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent?

[Miles Jackson]

John Thornton wrote:
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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 11:00:20 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent?
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> "A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South" 
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> FEEM Working Paper No. 51.2010
> PAULINE GROSJEAN, University of San Francisco
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> Although this paper is dated June of this year I remember reading awhile back, 
> maybe one or two years back, about an experiment in triggering violent behaviour 
> that cited a paper with the exact same hypothesis and conclusion.
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> The study was one of "accidentially" bumping people in crowded corridors and 
> testing people's reactions. The experiment was run with both median size and 
> large males doing the "bumping". Overwhelmingly, white males from the south were 
> ready to come to blows rather quickly, when compared to white males from 
> elsewhere or minority males. The study I read was done in the US. 
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> The individuals conducting the "bumping' experiment cited a paper that sounds 
> identical to this one.
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> Is anyone aware of another study nearly identical to this one?
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> John Thornton

Yes, social psychologists have been studying this for about 15 years 
now.   Dov Cohen's done a lot of work on this.  Here's a link to a 1996 
JPSP article:

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/mawhatley/7670/activity/honor.htm

Miles