(July 19, 2021 at 11:46 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I have some friends who manage to drive around Columbia SC with Darwin Fish and pro-science stickers (not explicitly atheist), but I live outside the capital and I don't put anything on my car. I can't afford repairs and in SC the farther from a city you are the worse it gets. I'd be concerned for my personal safety in some small towns in SC if I advertised that I'm an atheist.
Even in the South it depends. I live on the coast of North Carolina and all the places I worked since moving down here were full of diversity, and the patrons were mostly middle class and or elderly transplants from the suburbs of the North. I would say however, the more rural you go in any state, especially in more white poor, you will see more religious and less tolerance. But to be fair, the same can be said worldwide. The more mixed a city or suburb is, the more connection to the global society one has. The more isolated and rural and religious a location is, the less tolerant that society is.
But in any case, there are powers at the tops of nations that can and do prey upon the fear of those under them.
