The science hostile cohort is flourishing wherever christian fundamentalism is rampant, in some places most people are exactly this. A lot of the depressing things Carl Sagan mentioned in Demon Haunted World turns out to be true. I had thought that 20 years ago we were on our way to being a rational society but it turned out this notion was on its way out.
Cmon the puritans were one of many different founding cohorts. Quakers, borderers, cavaliers, etc. America was never of one mind on the subject of religion.
