Dear Neville,
I wasn’t thinking of the south as much as the west. I was just making easy statements. I don’t know If they are true.
The South had some really old communities until recently. Although they mostly fell apart, I suspect that most of them scattered instead of migrating. If you really go into the sticks down south, you would see what real hatred is. But anyways, you meant Liberal Northeastern Jews. And there are many non-liberal assimilated Jews.
I thought the point of these surveys are to understand the makeup of Jewish Communities. As in what the people are actually like. Not what the definitions are. I feel lost on this thread.