RufusAtticus

What part of the south did you go to? Other than the mountains, African Americans make up at least 20% of the population. (In some areas they are >50% of the population.) Hispanics are very numerous too.

Because it is home.

~~RvFvS~~

I ate Pascal's Wafer

Forgive Rufus, he's in Atlanta (IIRC). Big cities aren't really part of the South.

-Nick

RufusAtticus

Would you like to share, whatever you're smokin with the rest of the board? I'm from Athens, GA and still there. It is rather offensive to say that I am from Atlanta! (Okay, not that offensive, but damn it, never make that mistake again!)

Marruk

I lived in Texas for a while (one year) and most of the population was white, and hispanic but it was very upsetting to me that all of the white people I met were very much the same and looked on hispanics as a lower second class.

I'm sure it is not this way everywhere. My step grandparents are from Oklahoma and while I was there everybody was practically white and they all dressed the same way and acted the same way and it was eirie for me being from southern california.

I visited Atlanta Georgia and there I felt a little more at ease, and it seemed a bit more like home, except for the humitity.

The statements that I made was from my experiences from many of the small towns that I have gone through throughout the entire south. My father always took us kids on road trips through our nation and I've seen quite a few places in the south. There are places similar here, like Sacremento and Riverside, or in Colorado, the small town Alamosa is similar. Maybe it isn't just this way in the south and is like this in many small towns, I have just noticed it more in the south.

ImGod

If those states make up the bible belt then someone needs to put Florida back in and zip.

RufusAtticus

Marruk,

I was looking at census data yesterday and the density of African Americans begins to thin out to nothing in Mid Texas. Strangly this is about the same time that hispanic population begins to peak.

Sure there are many small southern towns that are either white or black for various historical reasons. But that doesn't hold true for most larger towns and cities or even counties.

Hubble head

I have traveled all over the belt. I noticed that in the west it starts in West Texas and goes east all the way over to Florida, Up through the Carolinas and into Virginia. Over to Kentucky with some Indiana, Southern Illinois and Missouri. Then on over to Kansas and down to Oklahoma. Arkansas and Tennesee are in there too.

Hardcore religion exists elsewhere but that is where the fundies call home. Yes, it's also ironically tornado ally.

I ate Pascal's Wafer

Well damn. Where did I get that you lived in Atlanta then? It could've been that thread about the Ga infidels meeting in Atlanta, then somebody there said you lived in Ga. Of course Athens and Atlanta both start with the letters "a" and "t", and the letter "l" can certainly look a whole lot like "h". Sorry 'bout that!

I'll remember to share some of what I'm smoking with you all next time!

-Nick

I ate Pascal's Wafer

Science, don't forget that not all of Florida is in the Bible belt. As you go further south, you end up in the North Eastern U.S without the snow. Of course farther south (say around Miami) you end up in Cuba.

-Nick

I ate Pascal's Wafer

LMAO!! I don't even know why Florida hangs out there like that. Florida suffers from electile dysfunction and just won't be able to get back up again, so we might as well stuff it back in. Maybe this explains why the part of Florida with the fundies is tucked away in the Bible belt, and the part of Florida with the normal people is exposed to reality...

-Nick