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Entry: The Pragmatism of Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_pragmatism_of_russell_kirk#3591 Post contents: Red, there's a problem with relying on demographics--namely, that there is no Protestant America. There are different Protestant strains in different parts of America, and the various Yankee forms of Protestantism aren't conservative. Meanwhile, some of the dominant strains of Southern Protestantism have more in common culturally with Roman Catholicism, despite our doctrinal disagreements. And we should never forget that there are significant Catholic communities and regions in the South. Kirk's own spiritual progress indicates some of this. I don't mean to suggest that there was anything incomplete about his conversion to Catholicism when I say that, in one sense, where else was a Northern conservative to go? Sent at: 2008 10 07