On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:09 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We got some, too. I believe Georgia started as a prison colony. But it's
>> true you got the bulk of them, which was good for you. We got all the
>> religious fruitcakes, and that haunts us to this day.
>
> Fortunately, the People's Republic of Iowa was settled a couple
> hundred years later. We got the non-religious types here. The dominant
> churches here were the Catholic and Lutheran churches, but mostly were
> churched as a result of the Second (Methodists) and Third Great
> Awakening. But even so, there is a pretty strong dichotomy of
> religious and secularism here that contradicts the "religious nut-job"
> persona that we have according to the east/west coast crowd that
> consider us all to be hayseed hicks.
>
> Well...
>
> I'm kinda hayseedy at times, but Joel is not a hick.
Now I know what to put on my gravestone.
Joel W.
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