The nearest thing you'd find to the Bible Belt in the British Isles would be across the water from England. Ian Paisley got his "doctorate" at that strange Jones university where Bush got a standing ovation.

But I think we should get away from this politicking around, and talk some time about what you could call "cultural conservatism", or old-fashionism, because I think a lot of us have a lot more in common there, and not much in common with a lot of the people who run the parties we might find ourselves voting for, left or right, and both sides of the Atlantic (and beyond). And maybe that ties in with the music wee like as well.