epursimuove comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 December 2012 10:27:35AM *  3 points [-]

How is the Southern Strategy related to atheism? It seems to have been an appeal to ethnocentrism. What are the religiosity stats for Southern vs. Northern states in that period?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 December 2012 04:39:08PM 1 point [-]

What are the religiosity stats for Southern vs. Northern states in that period?

Not sure, but they've generally been consistently higher for a long time. That's where we get the term Bible Belt which has been around since the late 1920s. Moreover, the Lost Cause was early on heavily connected to religion.