On 10/19/2011 6:40 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:33:26 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> Pharyngula has been running stuff recently from people on "Why I am an
>> atheist". One of the recent entries is from someone in Mississippi.
>> Doesn't say that its "dangerous" per-say to be one, but definitely
>> damned inconvenient, if they ever came out and said so. I would argue
>> that there are probably a "few" places in some of those states where
>> "inconvenient" goes a bit beyond just not having anyone at all listen to
>> anything you ever say, or the like. There are some real nuts in this
>> country, more so even than the people running for office, and, pretty
>> much by definition, such people are scared to death of being alone, so
>> they tend to congregate all in one place. This means either clubs (if in
>> larger cities), but little opportunity to really hurt anyone, or,
>> possibly, whole bloody towns, in places where the "law" is one of their
>> own members.
>
> Absolutely - it's hard to even generalise about a region or even a small
> town.
>
> Jim
Except that for such towns to exist, you kind of need a lot of other 
towns around them, and a state, which doesn't precisely condone such 
things, but does turn a blind eye to them, because of a general sense 
that, "Those buggers might go a wee bit too far, but in general, the 
sentiment is right."

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