Is sci fi and fantasy less accepted in the American South?

I have never been able to get into epic fantasy. I prefer spaceships and futuristic soldiers over knights and dragons. I don't look down on people who read fantasy. Different strokes for different folks.

Do you think sci fi and fantasy is less accepted in the American South? Do the Christian Conservatives and Baptists think fantasy with wizards and magic is a tool of the Devil? Do moderate Republicans and rednecks sci fi is only for liberals and nerds? Are the plots too scientific and complicated?

What would they think of a TV show featuring heroic military people and badass spaceships?

Grew up here, watched Star Trek Next Gen, Babylon 5, Star Wars, plus all the sci fi movies you could think of, from the cringe worthy Mystery Science theater type to the Epic.
The South has it's own Con, in Dragon Con.

Where the scifi folks come out in droves.
I think it's safe to say it's rather normal here for sci fi fans.

SpaceShipFan92 said:

I have never been able to get into epic fantasy. I prefer spaceships and futuristic soldiers over knights and dragons. I don't look down on people who read fantasy. Different strokes for different folks.

Do you think sci fi and fantasy is less accepted in the American South? Do the Christian Conservatives and Baptists think fantasy with wizards and magic is a tool of the Devil? Do moderate Republicans and rednecks sci fi is only for liberals and nerds? Are the plots too scientific and complicated?

What would they think of a TV show featuring heroic military people and badass spaceships?

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Huh?

This is a pointless thread, you made a conclusion that you have not supported in your OP and then asked us hypotheticals that presuppose your conclusion is correct. that's not really a discussion.

SpaceShipFan92 said:

I have never been able to get into epic fantasy. I prefer spaceships and futuristic soldiers over knights and dragons. I don't look down on people who read fantasy. Different strokes for different folks.

Do you think sci fi and fantasy is less accepted in the American South? Do the Christian Conservatives and Baptists think fantasy with wizards and magic is a tool of the Devil? Do moderate Republicans and rednecks sci fi is only for liberals and nerds? Are the plots too scientific and complicated?

What would they think of a TV show featuring heroic military people and badass spaceships?

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Dune was a fine fix of all the components from archaic to milenia in the future.

No, it is not less accepted in the American South.

EMNofSeattle said:

Huh?

This is a pointless thread, you made a conclusion that you have not supported in your OP and then asked us hypotheticals that presuppose your conclusion is correct. that's not really a discussion.

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Its rathe bigoted and offensive and im not even a southerner. Im not not sure the op intended it to be but it is what it is.


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SpaceShipFan92 said:

I have never been able to get into epic fantasy. I prefer spaceships and futuristic soldiers over knights and dragons. I don't look down on people who read fantasy. Different strokes for different folks.

Do you think sci fi and fantasy is less accepted in the American South? Do the Christian Conservatives and Baptists think fantasy with wizards and magic is a tool of the Devil? Do moderate Republicans and rednecks sci fi is only for liberals and nerds? Are the plots too scientific and complicated?

What would they think of a TV show featuring heroic military people and badass spaceships?

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Do you have any evidence to support these suppositions?

I'm Southern, religious, and Conservative. I love science fiction, and so do my father and my brother. We're all fans of fantasy as well...Though to a lesser degree, for basically the same reasons you listed.

Granted, some of the messages in modern science fiction and fantasy can get to be more than a bit irritating for us, given that - like most modern media - a Hell of a lot of the authors tend to be Leftists and Liberals. However, that's why I tend to prefer "Hard" science fiction, which mainly sticks to science, and therefore provides authors less leeway to go "off the deep end" with regard to their wacky political, religious, or social views to begin with (or military science fiction, which mostly just focuses on things getting blown teh eff up, and the logistics behind that :lol: ).

In any case, I don't think you're going to find the kind of wholesale conceptual rejection of either SF or Fantasy you're hinting at here basically anywhere in the US, besides maybe the very most rigid of religious fundamentalist communities. That's just not the South, certainly not as a whole.

The person posting this is a troll. They have done this on other boards.