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I don't follow your logic at all. North Alabama, upstate South Carolina, western North Carolina, north Georgia, north Louisiana, northeast Mississippi, are all hilly country, predominantly white, with lots of folks you'd probably call "Hillbillies," who are just like the folks in east Tennessee.
Likewise, go around west Tennessee, around Memphis, and you'll have lots of black folks, just like the flat areas of all those states I mentioned. I'm having trouble understanding the basis of your opinion.
Most Southern Areas are either black or white, usually both being Christian... I wouldn't Count Tennessee as south, sort of like mentioned above...like Kentucky, except poor Kentucky...when some one says that people think fried chicken....Tennessee is indeed diverse, I sort of going off of stereotypes...
Connecticut has the strongest culture- in the top 5 states. For the arts, visual and performing. Culinary via foods that are healthy, quality of life for children, Education, colleges, ...........
inspired by another thread, no poll though cause we don't wanna leave anyone out...
when I think of culture, you think of the way people do stuff everyday or the content of the city like art or architecture...a seperate Identity, even if it is a stereotype....
I guess anyone who knows me would expect this answer, but TEXAS! LOL
Texas really is its own seperate self. It is essentially a Southern state in terms of history, culture, etc...but unlike the many of the other former Confederate States it identifies with itself more than it does with the larger regional concept. For instance, I think, many in Mississippi (my own ancestral home), Alabama, Georgia, etc, will think in terms of being Southerners before state identification...while Texans will be the opposite.
The irony, IMHO, is that most of the things that make Texas unique are VERY Southern in origin! It is the South amplified to a degree that those in our genteel and understated kindred states to the east might consider loud and boastful. And while not denying the familial relationship, keep us at an arms length...like the wild country cousin....saying something like "welll, there is Texas...and it is something a bit different!
Well, thanks. I think most of the non-Mormons live in SLC. 60% is still a huge number for any one relgion.
The latest information as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune in today's online edition ("Religion study: Fewer stick to family faiths; number of unaffiliated up," by Jessica Ravitz, February 26, 2008):
"The [U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, a product of The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life,] says Latter-day Saints account for 58 percent of Utah's population."
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