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Some years ago a writer in the Washington Post made a snide comment about evangelicals of the southern persuasion, saying that they were dim-witted ignoramuses. I should know the statement by heart since it’s been quoted often enough by bright-witted evangelicals as evidence of media bias. That I can’t quote it offhand must mean that I am either a nonevangelical nonsoutherner or that I don’t have media elites in my target range. (I could also store in my memory hard-drive a treasury of right-wing and snotty critiques of mainstream Protestants and liberal Catholics.