Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith faith and freedom.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go 'Oh yeah okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.