ribit sez ~ "This starts at the mason dixon line and works it's way north getting worse every mile all the way to the north pole. Going south from the Mason Dixon line people are smarter, kinder and more easy going. The further ya go south the better they are until you get to Florida which is a Yankee state that slid down the map somehow."
Hmmm ... does this have sumthin' to do wif da grits intake quotient ... dangerously low north of da Mason/Dixon Line and sufficiently high south of dat line? Could dat possibly be one of da causes, yer majesty?