When did evangelical Christianity become associated with the American South...

When did evangelical Christianity become associated with the American South? In the 19th century it seems that the South was mostly Anglican while most evangelicals were in the North.

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>evangelical christianity
That's more of a widwestern thing, not a southern thing

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>In the 19th century it seems that the South was mostly Anglican
Simply not true, the South used to be mostly Presbyterian, never Anglican. As for "when" did it became evangelical, it was during the 3rd Great Awakening.

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Why is this allowed

It almost always was, from the very beginning. Heavily rural, with large empty areas between settlements precludes any kind of high church Protestantism and the KKK went after Catholics, so. Look up the Great Awakenings.

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First, we need to define the term evangelical. If you mean non-Anglican, then you've almost got the paradigm backwards.

Congregationalists and Presbyterians basically owned New England. The offspring of the pilgrims and Puritans, they held all of the Northern states until they historically lost the Gospel through a combination of liberalism and the "half-way covenant". Continental and Dutch Reformed churches were also a notable minority in the North, back to the colonial days. (New York, Pennsylvania, and eventually Michigan)

By and large Anglicans lost whatever significant footprint on the Northern states that they did have with the Revolution. Bishops and episcopal polity was seen as a remnant or telltale of monarchist leanings. It simply fell out of favor in the new republic.

The South, meaning from Virginia on down, has always had something of an Anglican backbone, but that's mainly just the cities, especially older cities and state capitols. But travel to any of the original frontier states across the Appalachian Mountains and you'll find that Methodists& Baptists (followed by Presbyterians) really populated the place. Methodists had the frontier spirit and revivals boosted their numbers, but they too eventually would lose the Gospel due to their Arminian-influenced theology and their eventual descent into liberalism.

Now this is not to say that Anglicanism was not present. Being part of "the king's church" was something respectable that many wealthy statesmen and landowners took pride in. (see Robert E. Lee and others) But this Anglicanism in the South had low church traditions and when the high church traditions creeped in from the North it just about killed the Protestant witness in these churches. Fast forward to the early 20th century and the Anglican (or Episcopal) church in the US was one of the earliest churches to fall to theological and then social liberalism.

To be honest I don't think it will for much longer, evangelical Christianity is quickly becoming a Latin American and African thing, along with some Asian growth as well.

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Who filled in these gaps? Well the Methodists followed much the same path as the Anglicans, in their trajectory for ministries of mercy they became infatuated with the Social Gospel and completely gave up being a real denomination of the church. Literally any UMC service you'll ever sit through will be basically a sermon on how Jesus founded soup kitchens. No truth, no risen Christ, no Gospel call. Just social service.

That leaves the Presbyterians and the Baptists. Both had their fights with modernism in the 20th century (Presbyterians sooner, Baptists later). Baptists, though, beat the Presbyterians to the frontier and therefore have always been more numerous, but perhaps not as socially respectable until the early 20th century. As you travel across the south, you'll notice small-to-midsize Baptist churches dot the countryside in the hundreds (possibly thousands) and slightly larger Presbyterian congregations hold historic ground in towns and cities. You're hard pressed to find a conservative Anglican church in the South. They are few and far between.


Now if you define evangelical by the kind of free wheeling, non-denominational, neo-Charismatic trend of the latter 20th and early 21st centuries, then combine Pentecostal heterodoxy with a Southern distaste for ecclesiastical authority and the framework of revivalism leftover from the earlier centuries, and there you go.

Pentecostalism isn't really all that popular in the southern USA, or even the USA at all for that matter. It's mainly been picked up by Latin America and Africa, and perhaps a bit of Asia as well (I'm not quite sure about that region). The Baptists have definitely taken the cake as far as southern denominations go, and can probably be said to be the most "American" denomination of them all, given how concentrated it is in one nation.

Pentecostals exist but mostly in the utter backwoods of Kentucky and West Virginia.

>Pentecostalism isn't really all that popular in the southern USA, or even the USA at all for that matter.

They are a noteworthy minority in the Deep South. The Church of God, Assemblies of God, and even some non-Trinitarian denominations are all present to a degree. The Assemblies of God are consistently counted in the top ten largest Protestant denominations in the US. But, you are correct, they are a far cry from the massive numbers in other continents.

During the Southern Strategy.
There was an active plan to re-write history and create an identity for Southerners, an identity that would only be aligned with the political leaders that were shaping that identity.

Southern Strategy:
- Civil War Shame became Rebel/Military Heritage
- Racism became Separate But Equal
- Authoritarianism and Populism became Religious Fervor
- Progressive Views became Violating Dogma/Inviting Risk
- Inability to Adapt became Badge of Honoring Tradition

...And so on.

Fuck off prog.

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Also: Not an argument.

What the hell does Confederate pride and niggers have to do with religion?

Religion was one part of re-creating Southern Identity.
You have low reading comprehension.

Baptists were at one point a major Protestant tradition in the UK, but they fell to liberalism much quicker than anyone could have anticipated. The Baptist Union of Great Britain, formed between General Baptist (Arminian) and Particular Baptists (Calvinist) in 1891 quickly accepted Darwinian evolution and "downgraded" their view of the Genesis narrative. The 20th century that followed saw pretty much every flavor of heresy being espoused and every liberal practice being popularized. The faithful Baptist witness in the UK is limited to a handful of Reformed Baptist churches and numerous independent congregations. Spurgeon's church in London is still going strong, however, so there's hope still.

He's right you retard, southern Baptists are not evangelicals

>southern Baptists are not evangelicals
That's wrong though.

This.

I live in Texas and the most southern or "Texasy" people I've met who have been here for generations are usually baptist.
7th Day adventists are also surprisingly common. But so are a lot of evangelicals, to be honest I'm still not sure why, I thought it was always that way.

Based on your statements here I would assume you are a fundamentalist of some sort. You do realize that evolution is scientific fact and a literal interpretation of your particular religious scripture isn't, right? The only thing this whole nonsense about "falling to liberalism" means is that the evangelical denominations will be rendered utterly irrelevant in the first world as time goes on.

Evangelical is being used to be Biblical Literalism in OP's contextual usage, which is one of the legitimate known uses of the word.

"Definition Snobby" to dodge OPs question with a straw man interpretation and then to go on the attack is in fact also a known fallacious tactic.

But Biblical Literalism and Anglicanism are not mutually exclusive, so further clarification is necessary to address the question.

Theological liberals and secularists do not reproduce. People like me, on the other hand, do. Go die in a hole.

Heard someone say once that the Achilles heel of King of the Hill was that the creators protrayed Hank and his family as Methodists instead of Baptists. Apparently to a lot of Texans that was the one thing that made it lack authenticity.

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Actually, they are.
That is what defines Anglicanism (Church of England).
It was a reaction to the Literalist interpretation of Catholics (before the Colonies sorted themselves).
Anglicanism WAS dominant until the need for pious religious identity was created by politicians after the Souths defeat during the Civil war.
This occured again around WWI, WWII and the Cold War.

There was already non-Anglican religious identity in the South before the Civil War you dumb idiot.

Who is she?

>she

Shinoda Hajime from New Game!

>tfw no nun cosplay gf to keep me in chastity until I have proven my love for God to her

Isn't that the anime that's basically Saekano, but with video games?
I still can't trust any show that personifies creators as cute women instead of fat/scrawny men.

Where in the US does one find people like this? Texas?

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>Isn't that the anime that's basically Saekano, but with video games?
It's not romance but SoL with some light yuri elements.

Nips have a tradition of pederastry.

>New Game!
How lewd is it?

Not lewd enough.