McGrath, I'm talking about the U.S. as "here." I understand you still have denominational prejudice hangover in England. I won't say it doesn't exist here, but it's happily very, very rare. And, as a big country, one can always move away from the in-laws. Far away.

But I can begin to get a glimmer of understanding, when you speak of racial division. The KKK today is much more underground than a few generations ago, of course, but one can remember when they were blatantly present in some states. Their leanings are no less violent than before, though. The change is in their neighbors, who see them as pariahs today, not knights preserving the "grand" social structure of the South or the "natural order."

People who live on hatred sadden me. How draining it must be to wake with anger in the heart each day.

Sarah