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Louisiana however has the highest homicide rate and incarceration rate in the U.S

Louisiana however has the highest homicide rate and incarceration rate in the U.S

Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.--[[User:Coolguy|Coolguy]]|[[User talk:Coolguy|talk]]

Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.--[[User:Coolguy|Coolguy]]|[[User talk:Coolguy|talk]]

::That claim means nothing. Louisianna is predominantly French Catholic, a far cry from the Southern Baptists of the Bible Belt. Here your trying to confuse 'religion' with 'bible' in a typically prejudiced and offensive manner of most liberals. Even what few African-American, non-evangelical Catholics exist in the United States most all, with exception of a few from Maryland and Baltimore, trace their roots to the French Catholicism of Louisianna. [[Marde Gras]] is still celebrated, a distinctly Catholic holiday, Fat Tuesday before [[Ash Wednesday]]. Don't tell me they are [[secular]]ized, cause I've witnessed myself Marde Gras revellers recieve ashes the next day.

::That claim means nothing. Louisiana is predominantly French Catholic, a far cry from the Southern Baptists of the Bible Belt. Here you're trying to confuse 'religion' with 'bible' in the typically prejudiced and offensive manner of most liberals. Even what few African-American, non-evangelical Catholics exist in the United States, most all, with exception of a few from Maryland and Baltimore, trace their roots to the French Catholicism of Louisiana. [[Mardis Gras]] is still celebrated, a distinctly Catholic holiday, Fat Tuesday before [[Ash Wednesday]]. Don't tell me they are [[secular]]ized, because I've witnessed myself Mardis Gras revelers receive ashes the next day.

::So any vulgar stereotypes of what is and what is not the Bible Belt won't get passed me. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''The coup plotters won, for now'']]} 20:24, 5 May 2017 (EDT)

::So any vulgar stereotypes of what is and what is not the Bible Belt won't get past me. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''The coup plotters won, for now'']]} 20:24, 5 May 2017 (EDT)

:Yes, Louisiana has a high homicide rate, but so do Alaska and Maryland, outside the belt; New Hampshire has a low homicide rate, but so does Iowa, inside the belt.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm</ref>  Also, I've never heard any of those other belt terms, only "Bible belt" and "black belt."--[[User:Abcqwe|Abcqwe]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 19:03, 5 May 2017 (EDT)

:Yes, Louisiana has a high homicide rate, but so do Alaska and Maryland, outside the belt; New Hampshire has a low homicide rate, but so does Iowa, inside the belt.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm</ref>  Also, I've never heard any of those other belt terms, only "Bible belt" and "black belt."--[[User:Abcqwe|Abcqwe]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 19:03, 5 May 2017 (EDT)

::Coolguy, many things are driven by culture/history. African Americans have a large presence in the south due to the history of slavery in the American South. Africa is new on the Christianity block. It takes hundreds of years for a culture to be Christianized. But over time, biblical Christianity dramatically improves society (see: [[Protestant cultural legacies]] and [[Religion and crime reduction]] and [[Christianity statistics]]).  On top of this you have Johnson's war on poverty undermining African-American American families, many years of African-American slavery where black families were broken up and many years of Jim Crow laws.  

::Coolguy, many things are driven by culture/history. African Americans have a large presence in the south due to the history of slavery in the American South. Africa is new on the Christianity block. It takes hundreds of years for a culture to be Christianized. But over time, biblical Christianity dramatically improves society (see: [[Protestant cultural legacies]] and [[Religion and crime reduction]] and [[Christianity statistics]]).  On top of this you have Johnson's war on poverty undermining African-American American families, many years of African-American slavery where black families were broken up and many years of Jim Crow laws.