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When we moved to our house in SW Florida, we got flyers from all the different churches in the area. Never had that happen in NY. Plus, when that anti gay marriage amendment was being voted on, got blasted with flyers at home with that too.
Man! Invitations from local churches welcoming you to the neighborhood. How horrible!
I know for a fact that churches in EVERY region do the exact same thing when new residents move into the area. It's just good sense if a church wants to continue to survive - the same as any other business. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
You received political flyers? Another horrible invasion of privacy! I know for a fact that this happens in EVERY region as well.
I swear, people in this forum who have a problem with the South - real or imagined - will make up anything to try and make it seem backwards. It's so immature.
I think Germans must have brought Catholicism to Western Ohio. A friend in Cincy tells me that town, and Newport, KY, are still very Catholic to this day.
The belt narrows across Northern, IN, but that is where Polish Catholics and Notre Dame are located.
Seems like the Catholic Belt is Irish at the eastern end of it (Mass.), Polish at the western end of it (Wisconsin), with rural Germans and urban Italians in the middle of it.
Although I'll admit this was more true 50 years ago, and of course is a great oversimplification.
Lots of German Catholics settled Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee, too, as well as lots of Polish Catholics in Buffalo. Irish Catholics all across NYS from Albany to Buffalo, They are the descendants of the men who dug the Erie Canal.
On "The Bible Belt" it's a bit of a fuzzy term. The states that have the highest percent of people "who believe the Bible is literally true" are Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia. (I can't remember the survey, maybe Gallup)
Going by Pew the states where people are most likely to agree that "their religion is the one true faith" are Utah, Alabama, Mississippi, Idaho, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Alabama is the only one on both lists.
Going by the maps Virginia comes out maybe the lowest on religiosity for the South, but the South is lower than most of the Southern.
Going by other standards I'd say non-metropolitan areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee are possibly the most "Bible Belt."
Man! Invitations from local churches welcoming you to the neighborhood. How horrible!
I know for a fact that churches in EVERY region do the exact same thing when new residents move into the area. It's just good sense if a church wants to continue to survive - the same as any other business. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
You received political flyers? Another horrible invasion of privacy! I know for a fact that this happens in EVERY region as well.
I swear, people in this forum who have a problem with the South - real or imagined - will make up anything to try and make it seem backwards. It's so immature.
when I bought houses in NY. My daughter just bought a house in NY and she hasn't gotten flyers from churches. It seems, at least in Naples, Florida with a large transient population, churches are competing for parishoners among the full time residents.
when I bought houses in NY. My daughter just bought a house in NY and she hasn't gotten flyers from churches. It seems, at least in Naples, Florida with a large transient population, churches are competing for parishoners among the full time residents.
Every church that is interested in survival and growth will make an attempt to contact new residents in their general area. Don't make it sound like something that is alien to New York...it isn't. That's absurd.
I'm not calling you a liar about your particular situations in New York, but it is just as common there as it is anywhere to receive new resident information on area churches, grocery stores, insurance agents, and any other services that a new resident might be interested in. It's helpful information, and any that doesn't apply to you is easily disposed of...right? That kind of welcome to the neighborhood is a sign of a more tight-knit community IMO.
Possibly, but...Vermont? I always thought that state was more "nontraditional" religions and secularists.
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I never got flyers from churches
