@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
I think you'll find all the religious nutters live in your neck of the woods.
It does allow folks of a similar background to have their own turf, so to speak.
You see Germans arrived, and many went to the midwest. And, Scandanavians too. Both being Lutherans, they mixed and mingled, and got along.
The Anglo-Saxons populated the South and became Baptists oftentimes.
The descendants of the original Pilgrims stayed in New England.
The mid-Atlantic coastal states have a good many Catholics.
In other words, people of a similar religious/nationality clustered in this big country, for purposes of maintaining a level of comfort.
Even where there is greater diversity, housing developments tend to reflect a certain socio-economic class that correlates to one's religious/ethnic background oftentimes.
It is sort of like early medieval England, in my opinion.