Ha! Hockey humor.

Trump's elevator moves are creepy/scary douchebag behavior and consistent with his Access Hollywood admissions. Considering what other women have said he did, it's lucky there was a third prson there.

This is partly correct, but I think it oversimplifies the issue considerably. The roots of evangelism in the American South trace back to long before WWII, and certainly to before the social upheaval of the 1960s.

Also, although white evangelicals in the South presumably are more racist than non-evangelicals, I'm not sure that their racism is leading them to evangelical religion, if that's what you are suggesting.

It may be more accurate to say that there are characteristics that, at least in South, make people more likely to be both evangelical and racist. Also, evangelical is a very broad term that captures a lot of different groups, which makes the sort of profiling that you are proposing pretty messy.

Who do you think he was tweeting that to?

Its about time we stop worrying about being PC and refer to them as what they are, "Radical Christian Terrorists".

The problem is that, even if you are correct that racism and resistance to social change led people to evangelism, it doesn't follow that, after thirty years of consuming evangelical derp, the views of evangelicals on issues like abortion are pretense. At some point, you begin to believe what you are exposed to repeatedly. There is no doubt in my mind that many Southern evangelicals would pass a lie detector test if you asked them whether abortion was murder, contrary to the will of God, etc.

Archie Bunker.

In the 70s an entire country tuned in each week to laugh at and make fun of the prototypical dumb as a rock racist, sexist, conservative bible thumping, xenophobic, white male and I think that just proves how much shaming and #resistance works if in the form of the right medium.

Louis in rare form

Race was front and center in a lot of 70s TV shows (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons). Part of what makes those shows interesting from a historical perspective is the uncertainty about whether the audience was being asked to laugh with, or at, certain characters. It was probably some of both.

You left out my favorite. I was a skinny 9 year old named Jay and would sometimes go by "Kid Dyn-o-mite". Good Times.

For whatever reason, I watched Good Times only sporadically. I was a hard core Sanford and Son fan. TBS played multiple reruns every day for probably a decade. By the time I graduated from high school, I probably had seen every episode at least three times.

^ saved by the Bell for me.

Saved by the Bell tackled sensitive racial issues?

Sanford and Son was good too. Maybe better. But Good Times was right for me at that age - first run when I was a kid, not in syndication.

Nah, just that I watched every episode multiple times before school throughout high school.

Although there was interracial dating, so that's something.

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There was one white guilt episode where Jesse found out her ancestors were slave owners and tried to apologize to Lisa

The Cosby Show proved that racism was over in the 80's.

Twoplustwo seems to be running slower today.

Is thinking that everyone is an idiot grounds for dismissal?

Archie Bunker was not a bible thumper, nor dumb as a rock. The others are pretty much true - but the character was more complex than you're making. Meathead was just as much of a dip**** in his own right.

The women were the brains of the family.

I loved Good Times too. Tried to watch an episode recently for nostalgia - completely unwatchable now. Michael, JJ and Thelma capping on each other was so cringey. Sitcoms have come a long way from the canned laughter and formulaic jokes telegraphed from a mile away.

Try watching Smokey and the Bandit.... good lord they are awful.

Diff'rent strokes holds up thanks to Gary Coleman's performance. They spoon fed it but they went head on.

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Seems less than ideal.

What is the difference - in terms of religious beliefs - between "evangelical" Christians and other Christians? My brief Wikipedia research has left me confused about what sounds like minor technical details, and causes me to prefer the DVaut explanation that the causative explanation here is racism and the evangelical stuff is just how that manifests in their practice of religion.