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Your inclusion of “without a university degree” is doing a LOT of work in that sentence to make it seem like rural (and let’s admit it: white) evangelicals are
by olsonjeffery 4y ago
Your inclusion of “without a university degree” is doing a LOT of work in that sentence to make it seem like rural (and let’s admit it: white) evangelicals are anything close to a majoritarian bloc in the United States.
- ethanbond 4y agoYou don't need to be an evangelical, and certainly not a white evangelical, for religion to pop up in your conversations. Big cities are quite secular, but that's pretty much it... This is also one of those figures where the area-versus-population thing in the US matters a lot. In the vast majority of the land in the US, I'd agree that religion pops up in a huge share of conversations, but this does not imply that it appears in the vast majority of conversations in the US.
- olsonjeffery 4y agoGoalpost, move thyself! Nobody was talking about land vs people until you brought it up. I personally am not pursuaded.
- ethanbond 4y ago> Yep! Now, I've primarily been travelling to Texas, Kentucky and Ohio. This is land^ “The US” is also land. It’s not moving goalposts to acknowledge that you two may be talking past each other based on this ambiguity :)