Pennsylvania the Bible Belt or Mississippi of the north

[RobinA]

35. My Father's

family, both parents, were from Bridgeport. They moved "up" to Norristown in the '30's. Back in my Grandparents' day it was the Catholics vs. and Protestants in Bridgeport. My Grandfather's brother wasn't allowed to marry his girlfriend because she was [gasp] Irish and therefore Catholic. She wasn't allowed to marry him because he was [gasp] German and therefore Protestant. He drank himself to death and she never married. I like to think that today they'd tell their parents to take a hike and live happily ever after. Sad.

Both my grandparents and parents left Norristown for the rapidly developing post war bedroom communities of Montgomery County. My area is Repub, but most of them are housetrained enough to be embarrassed by Trump. Plenty of people around are in a quandary, because well-bred people don't vote for Democrats who represent the blue collar worker, but they don't agree with the current rabid Repubs. The way they view the parties doesn't jive with current reality, so they tend to vote the old ways. From central Montco south there is virtually no evangelical presence. Thank the lord for that!