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In reply to the discussion: Question for my DU friends in deep RED places. . . [View all]BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I made it exactly 3 years before I fled west again. I couldn't believe how obsessed people were about where I went to church. They REALLY were flabbergasted when I told them I was a secular Jew. I don't know why that should have been a shock, as my family had been part of a now defunct congregation, as any young person, Jew or otherwise, generally flees on the first opportunity. The ones who stay there are not at the top of the food chain, to say the least.
I guess what's happened down there is that people can no longer remember a time when there were other religions besides fundamentalist Christianity. They looked at me as if I had two heads. When I told some of the older ones that I was from the area and that my grandparents had had a store there, I got a puzzled look and then, "Ohhh. . . . 'those people'. . . ."