undesireables infiltrating our societyIn a piece about the growing popularity of Nascar, Dave Kansas reports the following over on OpinionJournal: Rhys Williams, a professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, sees Nascar's growth mirroring the movement of Southerners to other parts of the country over the past few decades. For example, as Southerners moved to California in great numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, the Southern Baptist Church was close behind. And the spread of Southern Baptists to California and elsewhere has contributed to a more conservative national religious culture, with a growing number of Americans describing themselves as evangelical. But, interestingly, the evangelical moniker has become more complex as groups have competed for congregants. Unlike the traditionally socially conservative version of Southern Baptists, self-described evangelicals sometimes drink, dance, smoke or even vote the liberal line.What a bunch of nonsense. Respecting Mother's Day is really that wholesome a counterbalance to a sport which so obviously supports disgusting slothfulness? I've never been to a Nascar event, but I imagine that the "buzz" running through a crowd of RVs camped out is actuallly less comparible to a "tent revivial meeting" and more like the buzz of a bunch of yahoos working on their second 30-rack before 2pm. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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