I confess. It's true.
So of course if they love TKAM, it is because they can manipulate it into an exclamation point to their "religiously" held beliefs about race and the South. They see themselves today in their support of gay marriage as none other than Atticus Finch on steroids. It's sickening but true. They are uninterested in anything that gives three dimensions and flesh and blood to their pet stereotypes.