[Tom]

My family comes from the Carolinas, Arkansas and Missouri, and I would say growing up there that almost every stereotype made of the South is 100 percent true and more so. I think a person who has lived mostly in the northern half of the States and perhaps Canada could never truly understand the culture of the South. After high school, and during college, I traveled north into Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota and now Iowa, and I would say the difference in culture between North and South is probably more evident if you come from a Southern perspective originally. You notice the average person is more friendly, honest and usually more intelligent than the average person in the South. I don't why that is, but it definitely exists as a difference. I don't mean all the people in the South are stupid, I mean the southern half simply has more stupid people - thus throwing the average person you would meet toward the lower end of the IQ spectrum. Historically, the cause of this is most likely climatic; you simply cannot be stupid and survive in a place as cold as Minnesota - especially in frontier times. And the frontier times really aren't that many generations behind us, so the difference is still there.

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Name : Tom, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : Iowa City, State : IA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, 

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