[mcguire]

Weirdly, when I was leaving for college, I was warned that spending any time at a big school like UT Austin would end up making me a deviant. There was talk about someone's cousin who came back from Austin wearing leather and with a nose ring. Lesbianism was a possibility.

Certainly, nobody thought college was for those who conform to social expectations.

Not at all sure if I came out deviant or just crazy.

[hopler]

Social expectations vary by social class. The low education religious people you describe are a different social class from educated business and technical professionals

[mcguire]

"Social expectations vary by social class. The low education religious people you describe are a different social class from educated business and technical professionals"

Technically, I can't argue with the "religious" description, since I attended the one cousin's ordination as a Catholic priest a couple of years ago, but prior to that he was a Navy submarine nuke and an NRC inspector. His brother is an engineer with the USACE. And their father was an engineer. And I've known countless "business and technical professionals" less educated than their mother, a Latin teacher.

You may want to consider leaving your bigotry at home.