[AnAmericanMother]

Folks in the South ask "What are you?", meaning "What church you go to?" just mostly as a polite question. It used to be a way to peg you socially (evangelical independent churches on the bottom, then Baptists, then Methodists, then Presbyterians, then Episcopalians) but that just doesn't obtain any more since you don't have to become a Presby or ECUSA to get promoted into management these days.

I'm Catholic too, what's more I'm a convert from ECUSA. My Baptist deacon GGG grandfather must be up to about 2400 rpm by now. . . . And you do meet some Jack Chick loonies around the South . . . mostly because they never met a Catholic before. I've had some interesting conversations. I can usually disarm all but the worst haters by quoting Archbishop Sheen that if the Catholic Church were really as bad as some people say, he'd hate it too.

Just offer it up! (It's taught me patience and charity.)

[linda_22003]

Have you seen that cute book, "Being Dead is No Excuse" about funeral customs and food in the South? They maintain that social pecking order of religions, with each looking down on the other for the quality of their food offerings. :)