The Bible Belt

Here’s a graphic on U.S. demographics that speaks loudly to the nation’s politics.  This region is always fiercely Republican, and especially since Trump has gained control of the GOP; they really can’t get enough of him.

Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been foolishly expecting all this hate and ignorance to evaporate.  In the early 1970s, Neil Young wrote, “Alabama, you have the rest of the union to help you along.  What’s going wrong?”  Made sense to me.

Well, of course, they don’t perceive that anything’s wrong, and we need to adjust our thinking and hope for slow progress over a long period of time.