How Religious Is Your State?
How different is the South from the rest of the Empire? So different, it must be constantly ridiculed to keep it down. Our religious faith is especially bothersome for our handlers, who know our spiritual foundation provides a natural order that interferes with their plans.
Yet despite it all, the South remains the most religious and conservatives region -- or should I say, nation within a nation?
Thanks to Harold C. for the link!
posted by Old Rebel @ Monday, December 28, 2009
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And all the New England States are the worst. But New England has always been the polar opposite of Dixie. When I'm in the Yankeeist of Yankeeland, I feel as if I'm in a foreign country.
I always feel the same way also Old Rebel. I was in midtown Manhattan (of all places) a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving and a door greeter checking ID's at a restaurant/bar I went in said to me (after he saw my Alabama driver license): "Alabama? Welcome to the nation." I felt like slapping the cold fatal you know what out of the guy, but I kept my composure. This is just another example of how we (North and South) are indeed very different from one another and as far as I'm concerned, should be separate nations.
There are some interesting differences in the rankings. If we can trust the numbers...
In most States, God is equal to or outranks Prayer. N/S Dakota has the greatest difference (15). Hawaii has the greatest difference (18) where Prayer outranks God.
In most States, God ranks from a little below to a little more above Religion. Montana/Wyoming has the greatest difference above (14). Nebraska has the greatest difference below (9).
The chart doesn't show the averages together so...
God - 71%
Prayer - 58%
Religion - 56%
Worship - 39%
For belief in God there are 9 (Southern) States at or above 10% of the National average, and there are 5 (Northern) States at or below 10% of the National average.
Thanks for the link!
Sid,
That's because you ARE in a foreign country in Yankeeland!
Anonymous,
They know we're distinct from them. Nothing has changed since the Radical Republicans declared the States of the former Confederacy as "conquered provinces."
Mike Foster,
And Virginia's numbers are skewed by the cancerous growth around the District of Corruption.
PalmettoPatriot,
When I was working at a large insurance company, one of our marketing managers from New York approached me wondering why the South was so different. "It's like a different country," he said in genuine puzzlement.
I patiently explained why, and he was appreciative of my explanation.
The South is the original America. The Pilgrims borrowed the money for the trip from the Jamestown tobacco growers. The North is your obnoxious relative that you raised after his parents drank themselves to death, sent to college and grad school and immediately he becomes much more intelligent than you. Now he can point out how well he did coming from your enviroment.
Cracker Americanus
Hey, I could swear I just saw somewhere that Mississippi is the poorest state (trapped) in the Union! Yet another chasm between us and their "nation" - what constitutes riches.
D. V. Arminius
To Anonymous at #2:
I've had similar experiences. I'm from Louisiana, but I live in NYC (for the moment). When people in the northeast find out that I'm from the South, they seem to feel that it's OK to make jokes about stupidity, about inbreeding, about my accent, etc. However, I've found that when I "return the favor" by proving that I am far more intelligent than they can imagine (I'm a shrink and in MENSA) or I offer documented proof that Lincoln was not a nice guy, they tend to leave me alone, although they tend to leave in a huff.
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