I spent a few months in Maryland on a contract job before my present job. Spiritually bothersome stuff there... yeah. But I did join spiritual forces briefly with a Baptist church in Hagerstown. At once it appeared to be unusual since it was about 1/3 black people, with a white preacher who preached a conservative Protestant gospel. Normally that kind of a situation in liberal-land is about as stable as cats and dogs. They had Good Stuff going on at that church. Then the Lord called me to the Nashville area where there is even Better Stuff going on. The Lord is powerful here.
The presence of the Lord is powerful in Tennessee...many are drawn there to be with their brothers and sisters in Christ.