the South is the best! I love being a Southerner, especially when you read headlines like this:
Manners help make a miracle
Southern politeness may have saved lives amid the chaos after Charlotte-bound Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson River, says a new book.
Nine months after skidding to salvation on the icy Hudson River, passengers of Charlotte-bound Flight 1549 have their say in a book being released today, one that contains an intriguing hypothesis:
A key reason that evacuation of the jetliner went so smoothly was because it was largely populated by Southerners.
While there were sporadic acts of ugliness in the chaos after the splashdown – at least two passengers said their seat-cushion floatation devices were snatched by others – an inbred politeness seemed to be at work, says William Prochnau, author of “Miracle on the Hudson: The Survivors of Flight 1549.”
“There’s something to that,” says Prochnau, who assembled the stories of 118 of the 150 passengers for the book co-written by his wife, Laura Parker. Prochnau said in researching the book, they learned that whenever someone felt a rising sense of panic, others in the group settled them genteelly and guided them through the ordeal. About 100 of the passengers were from the South…
It’s true, too. Southerners are usually raised in the old-school, genteel tradition. That’s one reason why I love it here, aside from four moderate seasons; the freedom to arm yourself or buy and shoot fireworks for the 4th; sweetened or unsweetened iced tea on tap, everywhere; low-cost, high-quality living; “ya’ll”; and the brilliance of Southern colloquialisms (spoken in Southern twang, of course).
As I’ve been told, the South is Happyville…ya’ll stay happy!
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