I seem to recall that Richard Lewontin once wrote in an article in The New York Review of Books on creationism making the point that many of the places in the US that are currently strongholds of fundamentalism and "scientific" creationism were, a century ago, strongholds for Eugene Debs's Socialist Party. In fact Lewontin made the point that much of contemporary right-wing populism represents the same sort of antipathy towards self-appointed elites that motivated many of the supporters of the Socialists in the early 20th century.
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Original Message: ----------------- From: Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:12:31 -0600 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] evangelical antipathy to taxes / governemtn
(a) States with good social programs have low church attendance (b) States with low church attendance create good social programs
Low church attendance comes from where?
And in fact it is pretty low in the U.S. as well.
And a centyury ago many (most?) evangelical Christians were politically to the left.
Carrol
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