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{Politics.72.18}: Andre Robinson {aardvarx} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:20:06 EDT (28 lines)

Red,

You're preaching to the choir.  I was just relating the general
attitudes towards Catholicism in the South...NOT my personal views.
I know all about the Reformation, Martin Luther, etc.  Even know a
bit of Catholic History...hard not to if you know anything about
European History.

>>>Maybe the "Bible Belt" deserves some of its reputation, but they
DO NOT have a controlling monopoly on Christianity in this country.
Southern Baptists only constitute a small fraction of US Protestants.

Yeah, but they speak with a big voice.  Intensity makes up for
numbers.  They tend to be far more evangelical in nature and less
afraid of crossing church/state boundaries, thus giving them a wider
impact.


>>>And since less than 1/3 of all Americans live in the south, it
isn't the universal reality of this country. I don't know where this
idea of "All Presidents must be southerners comes from".

The unabridged version is:  "All DEMOCRATS who want to be President
need to be Southerners or have a powerful Southerner on the ticket
like LBJ."  That's just the electoral reality for the past 40 years.
The South is so important in presidential elections because the rest
of the map is fairly predictable.  Dems have to swing one or two
Southern states to win it all.

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