If you take a look at the places in the world where religion drives extreme social conservatism, they're not doing so well. So if you take a look at states with the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation, you shouldn't be surprised by what you find.I think what he's trying to say is that the south has been the hotbed for social conservatism in this country since its creation. And social conservatism lends itself naturally to hatred of things that are different, such as minority races, minority religions, minority beliefs, etc. And to things that are new such as new technologies, new ideas, etc.Do you think that they are genetically inferior, or is it some cultural thing?
YOu know, is their culture inferior?
I think bigotry has been taught one generation to the next.
Fear-based bigotry as neurosis--a mental illness caused by nurture, not nature.
Their culture is no more inferior than the urban city blacks'.
Bigotry has harmed their economy for one hundred and forty years?
"No more inferior than the urban city blacks'"
Seems weak stuff to account for 140 years of economic lagging.
You sure you aren't holding back?
What were you really trying to say about the South?
So it's natural that a region of the country that fears and hates innovation and change would have a shitty economies.
Or it could be that an agricultural region was part of a nation dominated by Industrialists who crafted economic policy to benefit them with no concerns about others.
YOur assumption that those who are your ideological opponents, are naturally inferior, you don't see anything self serving about that?
Rhetoric Question, I know that you cannot imagine it any other way.
"Extreme Social Conservatism"?
That's a nice subjective standard to give yourself wiggle room.
THe modern world was built by people who you would consider Religious and Extreme Social Conservatives.
What do you think church attendance rates were like when we landed a Man on the Moon?
We landed on the Moon when Richard Nixon was President. Was he a social liberal?
ALL you are doing is revealing your bigotry against religious people.
If I were to argue that blacks were what drove down the economies of the South, you would accuse me of being bigoted against blacks.
But you can say the same about Christians and not have the slightest twinge of self awareness.