Yeah..the spouse is as moronic as he is.

Yeah, I knew when they invoked MLK at his concession speech that we were in for some serious bullshit.

American churchgoers are not one partisan bloc. They go to dozens or hundreds of wildly different types of churches, from southern baptist to Episcopal to UU. They may be democrats, republicans, socialists, green, Austrian economists, liberals, tea-partiers, libertarians, lesbian separatists, progressives, conservatives, rainbow alliance etc. etc. Some support the constitutional separation of church and state, some may still be fighting the "war on Christmas" etc. Not sure how long you've lived in the U.S., but you don't seem to have much idea about the diversity in America.

Black folks and Latinos go to church. And Muslims. Shocking but true.

It's kind of how I feel about the election right now...

Feelin the Bern.

That's Paul Manafort.

Before or after he "accidentally" picked a white supremacist as one of Trump's delegates?

"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

H.L.Mencken

I've lived in the US for 10 years, I'm a citizen in fact. My wife was born and raised here, as are all my friends. I'm probably as American as any Brit could possibly be and I'm unashamed of that. Your post just strengthens what I was saying, that religion is far more prevalent here than in the UK, which I was told earlier in this thread wasn't the case. As for religion and politics, it's quite clear conservatism and religion in America go hand in hand but I certainly wouldn't suggest you have to be a conservative to be religious here. Most of my in laws are from small towns in the Mid West, my mother in law is a die hard liberal and still goes to church, born and raised in a deeply conservative family in Michigan

Latinos are deeply catholic

Blacks are baptist

Clearly you missed the "facts" that I posted earlier debunking your idea that Americans are so religious. Church attendance as low as 20%, thousands of churches ceasing to exist each year and most remain8ng churches seeing zero growth in their congregations. The minority of the population that overtly tries to influence the laws and government are the equal of the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. Organized relugion is in decline.

Yeah, they're all religious nuts down there, racists, bigots, homophobes, you name it

Put your copy of The Guardian down, turn CNN and the BBC off and you'll find some of the nicest people you could ever meat in the south. Take a trip down there before generalizing about a bunch of states you clearly know nothing about

You truly are a very ill informed person.

"Informally, the Bible Belt is a region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism plays a strong role in society and politics, and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average."

The bible belt, for your education, runs from Florida and west to Texas including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma. It runs North into Georgia, the Virginias, Carolinas, over into Tennesse and Kentucky; and other states.

You are right that there are some very nice people there...but it still has the highest rate of religious nutters.

Not sure where you live or where you've been in the US, I'm quite fortunate in that I've moved around the US, as I did in the UK in fact. In addition to having lived in a few states, I have in laws and friends all over America so get to see a lot of the country quite regularly, unlike a lot of individuals on this forum. Currently, I'm in the south west of Florida and there are churches literally everywhere, and this isn't the deep south by any stretch. I suggest you take your head out of your backside and do some traveling