November 14, 2012

Red-State Religion: Not What You'd Think

Bobby Ross, Get Religion

I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Postfeature on post-election Red America and I was already worried.

I just knew that this was going to be one of those sarcastic, elite-reporter-gets-to-know-ignorant-people-in-the-sticks kind of stories (i.e., see the pretty zoo animals with “Mitt Romney” campaign buttons):

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