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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> Why does "go south" mean something wrong?   
      
   My  uneducated  conjecture  is  that at one point the phrase   
   became a reference to the flight of criminals from South  US   
   to Mexico, in search of shelter.   
      
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