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Aristus

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6. Yeah. If you move anywhere in the South, outside of the big cities (and even there, sometimes, maybe), the first thing
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:14 PM
23 hrs ago

your new neighbors will ask you is where you go to church. And if you don't go to church, social sanctions will result.

Back when I was still just a dumbass Southern boy, we were getting ready for church one Sunday morning, when the neighbor kid from across the street came over and asked us to play. I chided him, very self-righteously, for not going to church. I felt awful about it in the years that followed. I'm an atheist now. I looked up our old neighbor kid on Facebook a few years ago, and he had become a conservative Mormon. It kills me a little.

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I find this to be true in the rural farm communities I have lived in. SamKnause Yesterday #1
There are also lots of churches looking at people cachukis Yesterday #2
Yeah. If you move anywhere in the South, outside of the big cities (and even there, sometimes, maybe), the first thing Aristus 23 hrs ago #6
When my parents moved to the small town they are currently in (and will die in)... progressoid 23 hrs ago #13
Would need to see a lot more data before I would believe this assertion Raven123 23 hrs ago #3
Ya load sixteen tons, and whatya get? Permanut 23 hrs ago #4
This is true, but only to a certain extent indusurb 23 hrs ago #5
Correct Cosmocat 23 hrs ago #9
Yea But modrepub 23 hrs ago #10
Envy Johnny2X2X 23 hrs ago #7
THIS is the heart of it Cosmocat 23 hrs ago #11
Small town gossip Johnny2X2X 23 hrs ago #14
Large majority of Trump supporters in Mi live in urban areas Kaleva 22 hrs ago #22
I've seen this before. She's not quite right. progressoid 23 hrs ago #8
There are other factors, too. wnylib 23 hrs ago #12
The end of the fairness doctrine and Buzz cook 22 hrs ago #15
The entire Texas side of my family is magat. ananda 22 hrs ago #16
It won't load for me senseandsensibility 22 hrs ago #17
Here ya go, senseandsensibility Niagara 22 hrs ago #18
Thanks! senseandsensibility 22 hrs ago #21
My pleasure Niagara 21 hrs ago #23
Why have I never heard this before? It's Yellowstone TV series. lindysalsagal 22 hrs ago #19
Interesting ProfessorGAC 22 hrs ago #20
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