[PatrickHenry]

I don't believe that this anti-Science phenomena is limited only to the South. It exists in the Midwest as well and with people such as Rick Santorum.

You're right about that, of course. And let's not forget about Kansas. I was thinking about the old democrat coalition that included the South, and that coalition no longer exists. The William Jennings Bryan constituency (populism) is far more extensive than the South -- and of course it wasn't 100% of the South either.

[Maeve]

To label people anti-science is such a smug broad brush stroke. The point is that one can engage successfully in many areas of scientific work without bowing down to neo-Darwinist macroevolutionary theory -- which still awaits some provable and repeatable evidence.

The other point is that Darwinist dogmatism is as anti-scientific as some strains of Bible-only discourse. The monolith of Darwinian theory should not substitute for Crucifix or Torah as something unassailable and sacred.