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Gawker Pokes Fun At NYT Article On Manners

 The Southern United States.
The Southern United States.
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Hot on the heels of Kim Severson's New York Times article about manners in the South, Gawker has written a retort mocking what it calls "an alarming fake trend story in the Paper of Record." Gawker pokes fun at a list of things mentioned in the article used as evidence about "the behavior of tens of millions of Americans across thousands of square miles." Click here to see the list.

· Manners Down South: Killed by Anecdotes [Gawker]
· A Last Bastion of Civility, the South, Sees Manners Decline [NYT]