Douglas Todd: Can we tolerate Bible Belts?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – “You have a blessed day.”
That’s how the African-American cleaning woman took her leave in the vast hotel complex where I was staying in the heart of America’s Bible Belt.
In the South — where evangelical Christians handed Donald Trump the keys to the White House ­­— the guitarist in the lobby of the 2,800-room Gaylord Opryland Hotel sang “God Bless the U.S.A.”
Tennessee, in the rolling green hills of the Appalachia