The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118786   Message #2578842
Posted By: M.Ted
01-Mar-09 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Americans, Racial Cowards?
Subject: RE: BS: Americans, Racial Cowards?
My grandmother, who grew up amongst the Swedes and Norwegians of Minnesota, once explained to me that the Swedes tended to be Baptists, who neither drank nor danced, while the Norwegians tended, now famously, toward Lutheranism, who say that, "The Bible says nothing against the consumption of achohol in moderation, and we're not going to go against the Bible."