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 | Murdering babies legalized nationwide
« on: January 22, 1973 at 12:00:00 AM »
I can’t believe the SCOTUS would do such a thing. They ruled that there’s a Constitutional right to murder babies.
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Is ER actually Catholic though? I thought he's Protestant?
IIRC he was raised Catholic but is now non-denominational.
My dad's family is Catholic and my mom's family is Baptist. My mom herself is an atheist, and I was technically raised Catholic, but it was never that important in my household growing up (my dad's more religious now than he was when I was a kid). I was an atheist for my teenage years and became a Christian going to a Baptist church in college. My current church is non-denominational, but Baptist is still the closest of the main denominations to me (my only difference is that I'm a little more charismatic than most Baptists, but not nearly as charismatic as Pentecostals).
WASP style republicans were the equivalent of the Evangelicals in those days
Thats not what the WASP's of those days were. WASP's those days were defined by these things generally:
- Being Affluent
- Being very Moralistic
- Fear nation is moving away from them on values
Yes, but their values were generally less agrarian and socially conservative. I put ER as a Southern Democrat because they liked strong moral values, and since ER is southern I figured he'd fit in better. All the WASPs in Massachusetts would laugh at his opinions.
ER is not an agrarian , he’s a suburban sunbelt social conservative that really didn’t exist in those days at all and I believe his family moved from the north to the south at some point . Like I highly doubt ER would be a southerner in the 1890s but even even McKinley got 46% in that state and WJB underperformed in much of the south .
Lastly Massachusetts if today isn’t anywhere near the same as the Massachusetts of the 1890s which was extremely socially conservative. Also no the WASP would not laugh at him at all cause they pretty much were the equalivent of evangelicals today and not the WASPs of today . You need to really read the Yankee threads where he basically points out the fallacy of using todays perception of states to describe how they were ideologically back then .
I agree with OSR about what a hypothetical late 19th Century person similar to me would have believed (although this person would have certainly lived in Nashville/Davidson County, as suburbs like Williamson County weren't really a thing yet). But,
I wouldn't have existed.
One side of my family is Southern Baptist from the Carolinas, and the other side is Irish Catholic from Northeast Pennsylvania. Those sides would never have joined in the 19th Century. As for my family moving, it was actually my mom that moved from the South to the North after she met my dad at Duke (I actually grew up in Pennsylvania myself, with semi-frequent trips to visit my mom's family in Raleigh). For whatever reason, I always took a liking to the Southern culture of my mom's family, went to college in the South, and stayed after I graduated.
