Compare and contrast Southern Democrats and Southern Republicans

1) Catholicism/Protestantism, 2)  Slavery, 3) romanization, 4) influence of Arabian culture, 5) Africanization.

1) Northern Europe is Prostestant (different kinds of protestantism) since the 16th century whereas Southern Europe is Catholic (some parts are orthodox like Serbia or Greece, some parts are Muslim like Bosnia). This polarity does not exist in the USA (neither in the north nor in the south).

2) American South has a tradition of slavery which has still its reverberations today. It does not exist in European south.

3) southern Europe before being Christanized was Romanized which was very important for introduction of Middle Ages and Christianity later on. In northern Europe there was no Romanization, so Christianity was introduced to Pagan cultures. This contrast between the North and the South does not exist in the USA.

4) south of Europe was under influence of Arabian civilization (Iberian peninsula: both Spain and Portugal, the Balcans: Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria  were Arabized for many centuries; south of Italy: Sicily at least) traces of which are still visible. It does not exist in the USA.

5) American south was partly Africanized because of the slavery during the 18th and 19th century. It does not exist in European south.

the catholic church withhold people's access to the bible during the middle ages.

people could go to church and listen to the teachings, but it was absolutely forbidden to own and/or read the books of both the old and new testaments. it was also prohibited to translate the books (which where originally in biblical hebrew) to any other language.

this was done so the church could remain in control of what their teachings were and to enhance their importance and power, while also being able to judge people's actions through information that was unavailable for the general public.