First, let me say that I'm no expert on any of this. But I think the difference is that the Church always taught one as an infallibly true dogma, while the other was never taught as an infallibly true dogma.
Why do Catholic apologetics always boast about how the Catholic Church should never be confused with those stupid people who believe Genesis?
They probably think it makes for more effective apologetics.
If you can think of another reason other than sociological snobbery, I'd be happy to hear it.
I think what I said above about one being a dogma and another not is the most reasonable explanation. Do you think the Catholic Church decides its beliefs based on what would spite Fundamentalists?
Like liberals, Catholics like rural people so long as they don't live in America and don't have white skins. Also like liberals, they seem to regard rural Americans (or at least rural white Americans) as a dangerous bunch of neanderthal "haters" who are about to break out any minute into a spate of nineteenth century convent burning.
I don't know where you get this idea. This is not a common attitude among Catholics. I'd guess it's a common attitude of people from northeast metropolises such as New York and Boston, where there are a higher percentage of Catholics than the rest of the country. However, this attitude would be because they're from big northeastern liberal cities, not because they are Catholic.
Did you see that attitude in the your particular parish? I'd find that surprising, since I think you said it was in Kentucky, which I would think is even less hostile to "rednecks" than where I'm from.
For example, I'm close to Pittsburgh, and I don't see that snobbery towards rural whites. Actually, one side of my family was composed of rural white Catholic farmers, and that's hardly an anomaly. (I believe Dr. Kopp posted a little bit ago that Western Pennsylvania has the most rural Catholics in America.) This backs up my opinion that this anti-"redneck" attitude is caused by where people live, not their religion, if there are many Catholics where I'm from who have no problem with "rednecks."