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To: LindyBill who wrote (44513)	9/16/2002 8:20:45 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hey, I was a nine-year-old who got "dunked" in the glass-fronted Baptism chamber of one of those churches in Woodville, Texas in 1943! Funny. I grew up just down the road but as a Presbyterian. We were lucky to get an organ in the church. Formal. Proper. Etc. Looked to me as if the Baptists, on the next corner, were having all the fun. But then I learned about Baylor and realized I was wrong.

To: LindyBill who wrote (44513)	9/17/2002 12:59:11 AM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

>>it's the main source of Social Life down there, and the Blacks are more into it than the whites. << Well understood. When one lives a hardscrabble existence and no relief is in sight in this world, a better life in the next world inspires hope and drives faith. The resulting social community becomes a catch-all of information dissemination and unified action to deal with all a community faces. This is true where the tradition goes back to poor white non-slaveowners (the majority). For blacks trapped in slavery, that afterlife was the only way out, which endeared the church to them even more. Imo, that's where the traditions were born. Those who migrated to cities, which offered greater economic opportunities, found an option for a better life in this world. But in many rural areas, (including some North East, West and South), lack of broad economic opportunity helps maintain support for the old traditions.