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Old 09-17-2014, 02:46 PM   #489
JonInMiddleGA
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Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Originally Posted by flounder View Post
The south has a much higher rate of corporal punishment. It also has a much higher rate of violent crime. That doesn't prove causation, but the correlation goes against the argument that failing to hit your child is damaging society.

Only region (perhaps parts of the midwest) remotely fit to live afaic.

YMMV, but increasingly the last bastion of values worth the name.
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