my outline from here on out...

here is the outline from here on..

II.  Based on this tendency of  Southern Evangelical Christians, people outside the Southern “Bible Belt” may logically perceive them as outspoken, overbearing right-wing conservatives.

     A. how outsiders perceive Southerner’s religious beliefs - based on generalities such as racial prejudice, political, income, education (not ivy league), etc. ???

     B. how outsiders perceive Southerner’s religious practices

III. Southerner's actual religious practices and how they differ from others' perspective

     A. attend church - high incidence -attendance and size of congregation

     B. surveys indicate pray more

     C. participate in charity and tithing more

      D. religiosity -quote from Robert Putnam's book, American Grace -How Religion Divides and Unites Us Simon & Schuster, New York Copyright 2010, pgs. 26, 27. "Southerners are more religious than the rest of the country. " Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are the most religious states in the union with the bordering states just slightly less so."  The source was the Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center.