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[yakalskovich]

When I first saw this, I thought 'Well, hee hee'; then I thought, 'Hey wait, saphyria and alchemistseraph  live there as well, and if anybody says they deserve tornadoes, I'll be up with an axe against them.

A related discussion erupted all over my corner of tumblr, with one lady especially chiming in again and again.

Now I wonder whether it might be the other way round: religious people are more likely to live/stay where there are tornadoes around because they believe God will preserve them, put them in the place where they ought to be, or generally are less driven to leave the place where they've got roots?

Basically, the Bible Belt is the Bible Belt because the non-bible-thumpers, statistically speaking, are more likely to move away out of reach of the tornadoes, and thus leave a significant percentage of religious people in those places?

But so not posting this whacky theory that on tumblr for the next round of general slammage. Tumblr can be so awfully earnest.

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[yakalskovich]

Wales!! I must tell Sal that she lives in the safest place of the world. **grins**

And no, you're not coming on too strong. What you say makes a great lot of sense. Thanks for taking the trouble of writing all that.

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

As a history buff, I had a section on why Arkansas came out even poorer than other Southern states after the Reconstruction due to the lack of loans from Northern states, which effectively ended Arkansas's reconstruction a decade early. But I cut it out for length. >_>

Seriously, Wales gets rain, mist, sun, snow, and little else. Just have to watch out for the occasional alien invasion. :D

[yakalskovich]

I would have been quite interested in that section.

(And against the alien invasions, they have Torchwood, of course.)