Phil,
I put this thread up to introduce a little levity. So often, up here in the north, the folks just mock "Southern-hayseed-hicks" unmercifully. When, if the truth be told, these elite-effete-snobs up here in the north are big when it comes to knowledge nobody will ever use, - yet they lack common courtesy. They scorn people that go to church, while the only way they can find personal peace is to eat Prozac.
I say that as a Yankee myself.
I think Southerners might have more brains than most people realize.