People who oppose it say these laws will force people to be polite at work.

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For all of its spectacular successes and vastly greater numbers of lesser-known failures, most people are quite polite about things.

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Eighty-eight percent of respondents in our study reported that people are less polite on social media than they would be in a face-to-face interaction.

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"People like what they know, " said Ms. Wilson, adding that she'd have to be polite if asked what she thought about other people's homes.

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You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.

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She's also grown used to getting comments from people she describes, clearly searching for a polite way to put it, as "not wholly rational".

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Mr Craddick says that he will stick by the same polite Texan custom in the House, though he has blocked an effort by the Democrats to appoint people to the crucial appropriations committee on the basis of seniority.

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