[Mrs. Don-o]

The fact that the Rhineland princes chose to attempt to impose a Calvinist State Church on their subjects in the 1560's does not mean that everyone submitted. One set of my great-grandparents were Catholics from the Diocese of Speyer. Another set were Catholics from the Diocese of Trier.

Most tellingly, they all came to the USA in the 1870's -- a century after Sevier and the State of Franklin --- as they were fleeing Bismarck's Kulturkampf.

You: "So forgive me for taking you at your word. Somewhere along the line you went back to The State Church. So whether the conversion happened with you or a generation ago, it happened somewhere in time! If your Palatinate history is to be believed."

I would thank you to take me at my word.

That last line is so amusing. "If [my] Palatinate history is to be believed..."

Besser allein als in schlechter Gesellschaft.

[Regulator]

Ooooh, that's different.

Y'all's Forty-Eighters. But not Freidenkers, right?

Gutes Deutsch.

And anyway all the radicals went to Texas.

Like I said, y'all followed us here. Coulda just moved west to Alsace or South to Rome.