tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post695634888110329395..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Is the South Still a Cultural Region?Paul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-69416280995564340052008-08-05T14:27:00.000-06:002008-08-05T14:27:00.000-06:00Well, slight correction: the red counties are wher...Well, slight correction: the red counties are where Baptists outnumber <I>anything</I> else; the red counties with black dots are where Baptists outnumber <I>everything</I> else. But you made your point. And I love the maps the Religion by Region series has produced. <BR/><BR/>Thomas Schaller, author of <I>Whistling Past Dixie</I>, made (what I think is) a related point on salon.com today: white southerners' voting habits differ more from the national norm than the voting habits of any other region. In Schaller's words, "Is the South, as Meacham states, less distinct than it was 30 years ago? Of course. Will it be less distinct 30 years hence? Sure. ... [but] The outlier region in America is, as it has almost always been, the South -- basically, because overly Republican/conservative whites and overly Democratic blacks live there." You can read Schaller's full post <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/08/04/newsweek_tropes/index.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Seth Dowlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103158897766648257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-48317685659779156352008-08-05T14:21:00.000-06:002008-08-05T14:21:00.000-06:00Great picture of Catholic America!To complicate th...Great picture of Catholic America!<BR/><BR/>To complicate this a little, note that in most of the red counties where Baptists are the majority they claim less than 50% of the counties' population.rjchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447486006327105309noreply@blogger.com