[Graybeard58]

MamaB tells me that there are guidelines, and that the state and national conventions can strip a church of the name "Baptist".

Not so, that's not what MamaB said anyway, they can disfellowship an individual Baptist church from the S.B.C. but not strip them of the name "Baptist", just consider Phelps' "Baptist" church.

Any church may call itself "Baptist" just as any church can call itself "Catholic"

[MamaB]

You are correct. Although I do have a brain, it is a million miles away! My mom’s family belonged to a Primitive Baptist church or I think that was the name. I do not know the difference between it, Southern and the others.