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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
"The idea that Evangelicalism is Protestantism is bizarre to me.

Also, the idea that Protestantism has meccas in the Southern U.S. would make Martin Luther's head spin. Mainline Protestantism has nothing to do with U.S. Evangelicalism, or even the Southern Baptist and Methodist church, as commonly practiced."

Not really. Many African-Americans and other Blacks are Pentecostal or Apostolic, which is a form of evangelicalism or closely related to it as conservative and charismatic. And Pentacoastal Protestantism, probably the biggest offshoot, was mostly started in, of all places, Los Angeles, California! I think many of the Oklahoma migrants and Blacks started helped it take root when they left because of the dust bowl.