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JanusIanitos's avatar

Are we sure Iowa's population is still mostly secular and moderate? I got the distinct impression that a large part of their realignment has been driven in no small part by their growing evangelical numbers. I'll defer to others on this but that's the impression I've gotten.

However the potential for us to benefit from a republican induced farm crisis sounds plausible to me.

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Mark's avatar

I can't say with 100% certainty but I don't think the evangelical numbers are growing outside of a few enclaves. It's mostly the Lutherans and Methodists doing the realigning.

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the lurking ecologist's avatar

Well, the United Methodist church just disunited last year over gay marriage and gay ministers. Our local UM church dropped its affiliation and is now trying to raise boo-coo bucks to buy back their church from the national UM organization. The church up the road stayed. Both congregations are realigning now, with the bigots coming to our independent Methodist church or whatever they call themselves now.

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