I would imagine that a lot of this has to do with giving and tithing at church. Church attendance is, I believe conderably higher in the south. Further, I don't know if Catholic churches, which are far more prevalent in the Northeast, stress giving and tithing like their more fundamentalist counterparts in the South. Anybody know?
If you poke around on the site, you may find the answer.
but no, the "tithe" thing is not stressed....
although we had a visiting priest several weeks ago that hinted that those days may be over.....
Yeah, I'm sure tithing weighs in, but it's far from the whole picture. What you'll see in looking is what we already knew: Conservatives have far bigger hearts for helping others. Liberals don't want to give of themselves. They want the government to forcibly take from people and give to those liberals wouldn't dare even go around. Put it off on someone else. It's all about assauging their guilty consciences. Come to think of it, a LOT of liberalism is rooted in that. So many of them live perverted, amoral lives and they want society to sanction what they do so they can feel good about themselves.
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