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I created this blog in order to share my views with some friends and hopefully many more. I am well read and well informed on a variety of subjects although certainly my opinions will not be well received by all. I think you will find my views will run the political spectrum. I believe most people are neither far right nor far left on all issues or subjects but may well be far right on one issue, far left on another and centrist on yet a third. I think you will find I fit this pattern.

I grew up in upstate New York and have lived in such socially liberal areas as northern New Jersey and South Florida before I found myself relocated as a result of my wife’s career to Little Rock, Arkansas. This is where the name of the blog originates. One area where I would surely fall under the far left category is that of religiosity versus secularism. Moving to Little Rock, or as I refer to it, the “Holy City” has been quite the culture shock. According to the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life (a project of the Pew Research Center) 53% of all Arkansans self identify themselves as Evangelicals.

I considered other blog names such as Infidel in the Holy City and Lost in Dixie, but finally settled on Bible Belt Yankee. Some of my posts will be about religion in Public Policy, some on Politics, some on the economics, some on my Arkansas experience, and others on whatever is of news currently. I will try to identify my sourcing for information whenever possible (law school habit). I hope whether you agree with my views or not I sometimes give you a new way of thinking about things. I hope you enjoy.