Reply #139: Is North Carolina part of the Bible Belt?

[MedleyMisty]

I don't know - I don't think we identify with South Carolina very much. I remember in college people referred to it as The Vast Wasteland, and actually there's a bit of a joke going around with a picture of North and South Carolina and the caption "North Carolina - we like being on top."

It's just that yeah, we have a lot of churches here, but in my experience it's mostly just a social thing and people aren't really true fundie believers. Hell, I just joined Facebook and found a lot of my old high school friends and a lot of them have "questioning" or "atheist" as their religion, and the ones that don't make it clear elsewhere that they're cool with other beliefs.

Plus, except for one moderate (and that's a person I don't remember very well) they're all liberal. :)

Oh, and I grew up in the same town as Andy Griffith and it's what he based Mayberry on - we still have Snappy Lunch and Floyd's Barber Shop on Main Street.

I am wondering if it's a generational difference, maybe - I'm 28.

I don't know - it's just that I've been looking at their profiles and they all grew into totally awesome people and it makes me so upset when I see broad brush attacks against the South on here when the whole fundie/ignorant/bigoted thing hasn't been my experience of growing up and living here at all.