It’s near the South, but much closer to Entrenched Dumbassville than the rest of us (and sorry to any rational, thinking Texans out there). I was raised in the South and the only time I ever came up against that sort of stupidity was during a thankfully brief stint at a Baptist elementary school. Teacher was essentially ridiculing the Big Bang theory by asking the class, rhetorically, if aliens just pointed a ray-gun and poof, there was the Earth. I then asked why she believed in the Christian god since I took it to be pretty much the same thing–a sky-beast points finger/tentacle, and poof, Earth.
Shortly thereafter, and many times after that particular incident, I was perp-walked to the Dean’s office and spanked.
Oddly enough, I also recall, at that school, having the opportunity to watch a solar eclipse on telescopes out on the baseball diamond. That place confused me a great deal.
