In chp 6 of Greeley and Houk\u2019s The Truth about Conservative Christians <\/em>[CCs] we are given a social portrait of CCs. Here\u2019s the stereotype: CCs are \u201crubes\u201d \u2014 Southern, uneducated gun owners who live in trailer parks or far from the city (p. 91). What\u2019s the truth? Or, what do the stats show? In chp 6 of Greeley and Houk\u2019s The Truth about Conservative Christians [CCs] we are given a social portrait of CCs. Here\u2019s the stereotype: CCs are \u201crubes\u201d \u2014 Southern, uneducated gun owners who live in trailer parks or far from the city (p. 91). What\u2019s the truth? Or, what do the stats show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nGeography: only 51% of Cons Prots [CPs] live in the South; 57% of AfrAms Cons Prots.
\nAfrAm denominations have 59% women; CPs are about 50-50 (in spite of recent worries that males are dropping out of the church).
\nStable marriages are ranked this way: Jews, Catholics and then CPs. But, CP women are more fertile than Mainline women.
\nCPs are less educated and less likely to be professionals and their income is less than most.
\n1\/3d smoke; only 50% say they drink but more admit to drinking too much on occasion than most. CPs are more likely to watch PBS than others; they don\u2019t enjoy operatic or classical music as much; they enjoy fishing and hunting and watching car races more than most; there is a higher percentage who own guns.
\nThey cheer for the Cubs and not the Yankees \u2014 I just thought I\u2019d kick it up a notch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"