Why are people dumber in the south than in the north?

Question

Statistically of course

Answer 1

i dont think that everyone in the south is dumber than the north, because it depends about your brain and determination. Maybe there are just more smart and determinined people in the north than the south!

Answer 2

I would like to know where you received your statistical information. As I live in the South I see that we are no less intelligent than people from the North. Personally I find your question distasteful and ignorant. Charlotte, North Carolina has grown into a huge banking city. Atlanta, Georgia has also experienced a huge growth in business. Virginia is the site of some of the oldest learning institutions in the country (William and Mary, University of Virginia). Virginia is also considered "the mother of the presidents" because several were born and raised in that fine state.

I have met people who grew up in the North and have later come to the South to live. These people all enjoy life here in the South. Our way of life may be simpler but sometimes it's the simple things that make life enjoyable.

I am not dumber than my Northern neighbors nor do I walk believing I am smarter. Both areas of the country have their own attributes and short-comings. Instead of enacting a sense of isolation between the two perhaps we should all begin to appreciate our differences and uniqueness.

Answer 3

In the United States during the 1860s there was a civil war between the technologically more advanced and industrializing North and the backward, slave-based South. It was the worst war in human history in terms of causalities. The north won and that is why the US became an industrial power. If the north hadn't won, industrialization would have taken much longer. Y'all be much 'dumber' collectively... lol

Answer 4

Exactly what fishball said. Plus money breeds education and most of the money was in the north. Carnagie, Rockefeller to name two. The rich people funded universities in the north to educate their children. People in the south don't have discrestionary money for higher learning and poverty runs in generations. If grandfather is illiterate, he's not going to think that education is so important. His child might get a basic education but that child will not have the same appreciation for education and might not make his or her child go to school when the child doesn't feel like it. On the other hand, up north, Grandfather went to Yale so his children and grandchildren get admitted to Yale unless they're idiots. They get tutors when they struggle with a subject. Education is a priority. These are just a couple of examples. There's much more to it.

Answer 5

Seems to me that you have never lived in, nor visited the "South". I find no more people of lesser intelligence here in North Carolina than I do anywhere else! And while we are on this topic, riddle me this; why do so many "Northerners" migrate south for retirement and/or relocation? Could it be that it's a better climate? Better schools? Maybe even, dare I say it?, that people in the south actaully have MANNERS! It's narrow-mided questions like this that cause ALL our I.Q. levels to shrink! Seems to me that Larry the Cable Guy isn't so dumb after all. He's got a LOT more money than you!

Answer 6

That is obviously a stereotype. There is absolutely no relation between geographic location and overall intelligence. Sometimes, in areas dominated by big, extended families (especially ones that intermarry), certain genes for intelligence (or lack thereof) tend to appear more often than others, and so residents of these areas are (again, stereotypically) labeled according to the general IQ trend. But when it comes to actually trying to tell whether a person is dumb or smart just from where he/she lives, then that is pure nonsense.
And by the way, not all statistics are to be trusted.

Answer 7

it has to do with history. people in the north lived in cities, had factories and big buisnesses, but in the south they only had agriculture. well that was in the 1800's. so anyway the people in the south didnt start out as far as the north.

Answer 8

Where do you get your statistics? There are alot of former northerners that live in the south.

Answer 9

north or south of what? US? i did not know that, but now i guess i know the whole US is dumb... according t ur question..... if u meant US of course

Answer 10

Statistically,there are equal quantities of dumb people in any place in the world.