White evangelicals in the South vs white evangelicals outside the South

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

It depends on how we're defining what an evangelical is.

It's worth remembering that the evangelical movement as it exists today started in California of all places with Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursquare Gospel movement. That evangelicalism was tilted a lot more in the direction of populism and social justice - finding jobs for ex-convicts, making baby clothes for new mothers - and of things like faith healing that generally don't figure heavily into evangelical Christianity today.

Evangelical Christianity in the South isn't really much more than a rebranding of the Calvinist-infused Protestantism that's existed there for centuries as a buttress to the prevailing social order, whether it was attempting to justify slavery in the 19th century, attempting to justify racism in the 20th century, or attempting to justify bombing the hell out of the Muslim world in the 21st century.

Then you have the Midwestern and Great Plains evangelicals, who tend to basically be theologically conservative Lutherans and Methodists with an extra impetus to "share their faith."