The OP reminds me of a certain type of political activist who loudly shames others for stereotyping, then himself/herself promptly stereotypes large groups of people with a broad brush.
Like the joke, “There are two types of people I cannot stand: Those who are prejudiced, and the Dutch.”
They get killed or converted?
IME mostly they learn to shut up lest they be shunned and stared at wherever they go. And once they’ve made the switch to silence, nobody else of like mind will ever notice them. So they remain in place, but are invisible.
Happens in most political or religious monocultures; the minorities are much less visible than their actual numbers.
Is this some kind of stupid trick question?
The year is 2017, America is a highly mobile society
Most households own at least 1 automobile if not more
The nation is now traversed by numerous local and national highways
People go live where they want to, or where work etc takes them.
Many of your “American South” were probably from New York, or New Jersey, or Michigan, or Montana, or where ever.
Oh and yes, people from the south have even gone to and lived in Alaska
So, there is no “Good Old” 1830 south with slaves and plantations and what ever else BS you have dancing in your idiotic mind.
So exactly what kind of stereotypical Good Old Boys, inbred, sister humping, what ever fantasy did you smoke up today huh?
One could even say it’s – evolfed? Wait, evolsed? Dangit, I can get this.
My 82 year old NC born, Tennessee parents have no problem with evolution. Neither went to college, and they don’t vote Republican.
Look at you, with your hifalutin’ words! I don’t know what part of the South YOU claim to be from, but 'round here they’re called BEAUTY schools. :dubious:
“Cosmetology school” is for your fancy cousin who thought she was too good for this podunk and moved off to the big city*.
*e.g. Tulsa.
Now don’t go slandering Bible colleges. I’m sure Oxford’s a damn fine school, and the Sorbonne seems to have a reasonably nice arts program.
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Virginia. Almost everyone I know accepts evolution. The ones who do not simply prove it doesn’t always work.
Data here, the second bar chart, acceptance of evolution by state:
It runs from around 30% to around 65% by state, obviously negatively correlated with no so much just “South” but Bible Belt.
:backs slowly out of thread
Riemann, that’s only true if we define “the Bible Belt” in an unexpected way. The picture linked below from the Wikipedia article on the Bible Belt shows how it’s usually defined. It’s pretty clearly limited to what is usually thought of as the South:
Note though that that area misses a significant proportion of the portion of the U.S. where the belief in evolution is smallest. Also, the Bible Belt is usually considered to be where evangelical Protestants live. In the usual definition, the Bible Belt doesn’t include Utah, North Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, or Kansas, all of which have large proportion of people who don’t believe in evolution. I thought perhaps that adding states with large proportion of Mormons would cover those states. (And, incidentally, whatever you think of Mormons or evangelical Protestants, Mormons are not generally considered to be evangelical Protestants):
But that’s not quite right either. Yes, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana have large proportions of Mormons, but North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas don’t. Religious belief and belief in evolution are correlated, but the term “the Bible Belt” in the way it’s usually used doesn’t explain things either. We need a new term covering most of the South (although not the Mid-Atlantic) and most of the West that isn’t on the Pacific Coast. Actually, if you want to be even more specific, drop the area around big cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston.
Thanks, that betrays my ignorance of what “Bible Belt” means (I wasn’t born here). I rather imagined a curved belt that encompassed not just the south-east but much more of the lateral center of the U.S.
C’mon, folks, don’t be playing tricks on the new guy.
The answer is no. Nobody in the American South accepts evolution. You’ve heard of the Mason-Dixon line? That’s a force field that strains out non-believers. They keep north of the line where they belong and can’t bother the decent people.
Oh, no… the Dallas area is smack-dab in the Bible Belt. People freaking ask you where you go to church, get up in your shit about religious belief, and just make all sorts of assumptions about religion and what-not here. I mean, the Southern Baptist Convention is headquartered here, and has their annual convention here! Doesn’t get any more crazy than that.
Wasn’t and isn’t that way in Houston at all. I’d draw that Bible Belt diagram as going just north of the Houston area, but not including it. Dallas, on the other hand might be less Baptist/evangelical than the surrounding benighted boondocks, but only very slightly so.
The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention is in Nashville, Tennessee. Some major seminaries are in Dallas however.
Maybe I’m thinking of the Texas Baptist Convention. Either way, it’s a haven for whack-job conservative Christians.
Ever read the Cornerstone Speech by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens?
He had read Darwin’s “Origin of Species” as was quite prepared to use it as evidence that blacks were descended from an inferior strain of primates.
Actually Dallas is a cosmopolitan city, and it isn’t quite like the rest of Texas. It’s quite diverse and Democrats and not Republicans dominate the politics of Dallas. And somebody did cite an excellent reference called the Religious Landscape Study from the Pew Research Forum, and it did provide statistics for the Dallas metro area and the statistics were quite surprising. Most folks in the Dallas area actually accept evolution. And I’ll cite the statistics momentarily.