Having been brought up in the South I wanted to take offense, but then I remembered the science teacher who gave the class a condensed version of evolution and emphasized that he was only doing it because he was required to teach a theory that, according to him, had major flaws, the biggest being that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.
This was a few years before the Kansas debacle. A few years after it the state legislature was put under enormous pressure to “protect” teachers who wanted to offer “alternatives” to teaching evolution.
I realize this kind of anti-intellectualism can be found in almost every part of the country, but I also can’t ignore the fact that the South has a well-earned reputation for it.
