DamagedGoods

I'm inclined to vote for the Virginia Beach area being the buckle, what with Pat Robertson living here to pray away all those hurricanes so they can go strike other, less righteous parts of the country.

Darwin26

i feel soooooooo much better now ...knowing where the scourage of the universe buckle is... i should count my blessings..
surrounded by hasidic jews...
Both my parents born in the early 1900's and raised in Oklahoma ...my dad thought Attila the Hun was a flammming liberal ... my Mother, dumber than a fence post, still believes Jonah lived in a whale ...
So for those of you from the pretty state of Oklahoma ...i can easily understand your sad, angry frustration ... it's got to be hard to live/die with the virulent Xian Reich all around.
Big cheers for those democrats from Texas ...seems they have some balls and courage of their conviction(s).

I hope you can start banding the Bright's together, atheists, liberals and trounce the xians

Walkindude42

I'd have to say that the 'Buckle' is about an hour away from me, in Asheville, NC. The Graham empire has their training center their, "The Cove". There are atheists, and other non-xtian sorts around, but they all seem to be in hiding, for fear. The public schools (in general) have strict policies regarding teaching nothing of sex education save abstinence. I've been to school plays in the area and been shocked to see such performances as "Noah and the animals 2 by 2". Prayers are still used at school award functions in the town where I live. I'd estimate that @ 10-15% of the population sport the "We Still Pray" bumperstickers on their vehicles.

Rushianbeing

I live about an hour from Asheville, in Elizabethton, TN. We see those "We Still Pray" bumperstickers all the time! My husband wants to make one up with a vampire on it that says "We Still Prey".
Having said that, I would like to make my case for the whole sorry state of TN as the buckle:
-Was just reading an article in our local paper about how the head of TN chapter of the American Atheists Association was fired from her job after two Southern Baptist co-workers found out she was an atheist, threw business cards at her, and taped pictures of Jesus to her desk (yet the atheist woman was fired for "creating a disturbance" at work!!); she filed a civil lawsuit, which was summarily dismissed by the righteous, godly judge in Greeneville, TN.
-Campbell County, TN has just installed plaques of the Ten Commandments in ALL of its schools.
-I personally had to lie to my in-laws and tell them I did NOT write the pro-choice letter I sent to the local newspaper, because when they thought it was me, they threatened my husband (yes, their own son) so severely that he actually got physically ill and threw up several times.
-My mother-in-law runs anti-choice rallies out of the family restaurant where my husband and his father work.
-There are three gigantic wooden crosses high on a hilltop above our town, with a gigantic red wooden sign that says "Jesus is Lord" next to them. You can see them from anywhere in town.

The hills are alive...with the sound of bullshit!!

Born Free

Tell me please someone, is Florida quite fundified??? I've visited, longest time spent 5 weeks but you don't really know till you live there......what I really mean is the risk of my getting arrested for breach of the peace high???

midnight

I live in Lubbock, Tx and I've heard it called the buckle I assumed that was because it was the North western edge of the bible belt? Oklahoma could be part of that bucle as well I guess. Just the end/beginning before you delve into the deep south.

I found this definition: The Bible Belt
The term Bible Belt refers to states in the Deep South plus Texas where fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity is taken very seriously.

http://www.lifeintheusa.com/landhistory/biblebelt.htm

Darwin26

Rushianbeing... the PFAW is looking for cases just like the one of your friend being fired .... go on line or call. PFAW.org . We the members pay to have lawyers come in and put judges and employers on the cross for these aggregious actions. If you haven't heard of us ... pleeeze check us out PFAW.
i think Tennessee is a beautiful state ... i really enjoyed Memphis, the Peabody and 3 really fine art museum/galleries. Spent a week just west of Nashville, Civil War in Franklin Tenn terrible... i have a definate curiousity for the Civil War. Nashville had zero art.
But i sooooooo loved the country side with the cardinals and turtles at a resort west of Nashville ...can not remember the name of it.
You can keep Gore.