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Poll: Most momma's boys in the South

By Alexis Stevens
May 7, 2010

File this under "We can't believe they did a survey to tell us this."

An online poll revealed something many women have always known. The South is home to more Momma's Boys than anywhere else.

A coupon Web site asked men aged 25 and up about their mothers just in time for Sunday's holiday. Grown men in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia are more likely than those anywhere else to talk to mom every day.

Maybe it's a phone call or a text or an e-mail. But southern gentlemen remain loyal to the ones that brought them into the world.

As the wife of one of these Momma's Boys, this reporter doesn't think it's necessarily a bad label. You can, after all, tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his mother.

Let's hope he mailed her Mother's Day card.

Editor's Note: I mailed my card today!

About the Author

Alexis Stevens is a member of the Crime and Public Safety team.

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