A New England personality?

The poet resting place in the Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vt. While he is deeply associated in writing and temperament with New England, he was born in San Francisco and spent much of his winters in later life in Florida.

“People in the north-central Great Plains and the South tend to be conventional and friendly, those in the Western and Eastern seaboards lean toward being mostly relaxed and creative, while New Englanders and Mid-Atlantic residents are prone to being more temperamental and uninhibited,’’ according to a study published online by APA’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

I think that there’s something to this, though I might add “irascible’’ for New Englanders. And what do they mean referring to “Eastern Seaboard”? Isn’t New England there? For the region with the most crooked folks, I vote for the South, with its sweet-talking con men.

These studies are lots of fun but of course have marginal utility. To read more, please hit this link.