How the Northeast lost its religion and the South kept it.
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If you travel across the rural South today—the buckle on the Bible Belt, as it’s sometimes called—you’ll encounter plenty of hand-painted signs on barns or fenceposts urging you to trust Jesus as your Savior or reminding you of John 3:16. You’ll see lots of churches. And on Sunday mornings, at least some of those churches will have full parking lots.
Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of several books on American religion and politics, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship.
