re: Are you scared more by venomous snakes or spiders or do neither of them frighten

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Is it just me or are people from Louisiana way more afraid of snakes than people from other states. Obviously a very unscientific observation but I've never seen so many grown men get so uncomfortable at a simple picture of a snake than I have on this board.

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Obviously a very broad generalization using a very small sample size of "Louisianans," but I think the reason is that a lot of us from that particular state have lived a few horror stories with snakes, usually in our young lives...... Such as god damn cobra Kang snakes falling in our boats or cannoes from tree branches. Swimming between our legs while swimming in a creek or being bitten on the hand while gardening or something. Irrational fears are sometimes very real fears in our great state, if you go outdoors enough.