Selects: Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There was a time when the lower classes of the American South were considered lazy and dimwitted, a stereotype that still somewhat survives today. But this stereotype was rooted in fact. Hookworms, it turns out, were sapping Southerners’ life force. Find out all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hi everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects,
0:35.2	I've chosen a rather peculiar episode that peaks in on a strange and fascinating quirk of nature and geography
0:43.8	that changed the course of history.
0:46.2	A lot of the sciences and humanities are covered here.
0:49.9	And it is a gross episode, but it's also in gross seeing.
0:53.8	So please enjoy this one on Hookworms and the South.
1:01.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:11.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark.
1:14.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:16.0	There's Jerry Rowland.
1:17.9	Stuff You Should Know. There she goes.
1:20.5	She just ran away after nine years.
1:23.6	I knew that would happen eventually.
1:25.3	Yep, she had her little bindle sack over her shoulder.
1:28.2	And she's barefoot, which is dangerous, Jerry.
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