I really don't have time to argue with you as I need to get busy with a few chores, but I must protest your misunderstanding of my post.
The places you mention are the the Upper, not the Deep South. Also, I was referring primarily to the antibellum period when the Deep South had a very feudal, European society. Anti-Catholicism was more prevalent in the Yeoman Upper South (which voted for Hoover in '28) and where old Northern attitudes found their last refuge after being routed out of the North.
Finally, I am myself prejudiced against anyone and any institution that doubts the factual veracity of the words of G-d (and yes, the words of G-d, not "the word of G-d in the words of men" as your synergistic, "incarnational" theories hold).
Please refer to CTrent1564’s post #49 and my post #52. I won’t argue with you about the relative position of the landed gentry. In the antebellum years, their positions were far more important than in the reconstruction era and beyond. One other thing to consider: from the position of one of those eveeeeil Kat-licks, it wouldn’t really matter whether the person under the hood was a landowner or a sharecropper, now would it?
There were notable exceptions as both CTrent1564 and I have stated; but outside of those predominant areas, if you were publicly Catholic, you would always endure at least strange looks. And I don’t care if you’re talking Hattiesburg or Oxford, Dothan or Decatur, Valdosta or Rome. Maybe not from the gentry...but that really doesn’t matter now, does it?