The most popular vehicle in the west is the Honda Civic.  The most
popular vehicles in the Old South are pickups.  I find it peculiar that
pickups are so often advertised in western, desert settings and yet the
typical buyer is a good old boy from TN.  He almost never takes it to
the desert.  If he has 4wd, he finds very little use for it because TN
doesnt get much snow and there is no desert to go off road in.  The
main places to go off road in the south are very weedy and just not
pleasant for off roading.  He throws trash in the back of the pickup so
it will blow out and litter up the already littered roadsides of the
south.  I dont understand why he seems to think he is more of a western
guy because of having the pickup.  Southerners are less like westerners
than are people from other parts of the country - especially ones over
the age of 45.  For example, Milwaukie people, like Denver people,
speak proper english and have reasonably complete vocabularies - unlike
a 48 year old native of TN.  They also have lower violent crime rates,
divorce rates, traffic fatality rates, illiteracy rates, bankruptcy
rates, etc.  They also drive more similar types of vehicles.  The Honda
Civic - most popular vehicle in the west, is more popular in Milwaukie
than it is in Memphis, where a good old fat boy is more likely to buy a
chevy pickup.  Similar results are found when you compare the northeast
to the south.

So the south, when speaking of men over 45, is less western,
culturally, than is any other part of the country.  Maybe if you sell
those pickups and buy a Honda Civic you could be what you really want
to be - more western.  Better yet, why dont you move out west!  There
are many places in the west that are just as affordable as where most
of you live.  Not San Fran, but Grand Junction, CO, parts of NM, and
all over the west.  Oh yeah, I guess you guys wouldnt move out there
because of your kinfolk.  The south is very kinfolky.  Do you southern
pickup drivers even realize that in the west coast states, in large
metro areas, people over 45 have social lives that have very little to
do with their kinfolk, who probably live at least 500 miles away?  Your
kinfolkiness is just another example of how you southern guys are the
least western of any guys in the country, in terms of your stupid
southern, kinfolky culture.

Here are links that show that the South, as a region, taken as a whole,
has very very high rates of numerous general types of undesirable
characteristics

South has highest crime rates:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/html/web/offreported/02-nviolent02.html
http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/12/cz_kb_04bestplacesworstcrimerateintro_print.html
http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/crime3.aspx


South has highest traffic fatality rates: (see page 2, Fatalities per
100,000 column)
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2001/2001statedata.pdf


South has highest respiratory infection rates:
http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/respiratory.aspx


South has highest divorce rates:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923080.html


South has highest bankruptcy rate: (see "Deadbeat District)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3678/is_199810/ai_n8826091


South has high suicide rate (higher rate than Midwest and Northeast)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3678/is_199810/ai_n8826091