re: What is the most degenerate/embarassing state in the south?

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More than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late '50s and early '60s come from the Florida Panhandle.

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"To sit in your car on a sweltering summer evening on the main street of Nub City," he wrote, "watching anywhere from eight to a dozen cripples walking along the street, gives the place a ghoulish, eerie atmosphere." Nearly 50 men in Vernon and surrounding areas collected insurance for these so-called accidents.

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L.W. Burdeshaw, an insurance agent in Chipley, told the St. Petersburg Times in 1982 that his list of policyholders included the following: a man who sawed off his left hand at work, a man who shot off his foot while protecting chickens, a man who lost his hand while trying to shoot a hawk, a man who somehow lost two limbs in an accident involving a rifle and a tractor, and a man who bought a policy and then, less than 12 hours later, shot off his foot while aiming at a squirrel.

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You ever seen a man's brains?

I've seen them.

I've picked them up, scooped them up.

Put them in, do them up like brains.

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