Religion is kind of a private thing up here. I’ve only ever seen people holding signs at actual demonstrations and pamphlets are usually put down somewhere, so people can pick them up at their leisure. He seemed mighty confused that the culture was different than what he was used to.

I’ve never lived in the Deep South, but I’ve heard that when people move into the area, they are typically asked about which church they go to. It’s bad enough that they are assumed to be xtian and not just kind of nominal xtians, but active ones. It is (apparently) assumed in some areas that you just go to church. And it’s also assumed that it’s just okay to ask people you only just met such questions.

That is wild to me. I grew up in a fairly rural and red area of Pennsylvania, and it was mostly assumed that people were Protestant xtians where I was. But people rarely seemed to start up with that kind of thing the minute they met you…I wonder what part of the U.S. this guy was from…