[Alex Murphy]

It seems to me that until the Civil War, Evangelical Christianity was definitely a northern thing and the South was more relaxed. Was it just the disaster of the war that changed southern religious outlook?

I suppose that depends on how you're defining "Evangelical Christianity". The "northern thing" was the preponderance of Reformed Protestant churches i.e. Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist, and Episcopalian that went along with the cultural heritage of the original colonies, and the country expanded westward and southward IMO faster than those particular churches did. They didn't call it the "lawless West" for nothing.

[Zionist Conspirator]

See my post 35.