p.s. Your name is "SouthernGirl" but you are Catholic? If the numbers I have heard are correct, that is relatively rare. Maybe grew up in the North and migrated south? Not trying to get too personal, just curious. I recently did some studies on religious demographics and find much to my surprise that the South, which is supposed to be more religious actual had about an equal percentage of people claiming to be Christian as the Northeast. In the South it is Baptist, CoC, etc., while in the North it is primarily Catholic. Surpisingly, the state with the largest percentage claiming to be Christian was North Dakota. Anyway, just another factoid hobby of mine. I'm nerdy like that.
She could always be from south Louisiana, which is kinda sorta the South (since it was part of the late, unlamented Confederacy until 1863 or so) but mostly its own little world, and also heavily Catholic. There's also plenty of Catholics in Texas, thanks to its proximity to the border.
Hey, there's an argument we could start up: the best thing that ever happened to southeastern North America was getting conquered by the United States in 1865.
a fine and enviable madness, this delusion that all questions have answers, and nothing is beyond the reach of a strong left arm.
