[lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 24 16:02:56 PST 2005


DSR wrote:


>Wow, are you still in Mississippi? Did you read my post? My def of
>middle class did not include the poor revivalists, but the very 3
>bedroom 2 car "protestants" you refer to. Perhaps the South (and a
>many of the flyover states) have changed from your experience,
>because I'm talking about white middle to upper middle class 3, 4,
>5, 6 and beyond bedroom home folks driving SUVs, Lexus and BMWs
>crowding into the evangelical super-churches in urban/suburuban
>metroplexes like Houston, Atlanta, DFW and beyond.

They don't handle snakes and speak in tongues at the megachurches, do they? Aren't we talking about two different social sets and religious practices?

Doug



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