Is it a southern thing or just people with no common sense?

I would never consider riding an ATV (four wheeler) if I were expecting a child. I know someone who at 6 months pregnant was riding one and I expressed my concern and told her to ask her doctor for approval. To my satisfaction, the doctor stressed over and over again absolutely not! Too my dismay, I found out at 30 weeks that she was back on the freaking thing again.

I posted on a pregnancy board and was blasted by women who are and have ridden while pregnant with their children and these women both said they lived in the south. Now I'm not saying that people in the south have no common sense or that women in the south have no common sense. I just find it highly coincidental that all these women riding these atv's are in the south.

Isn't there a reason you don't do these things when pregnant?