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As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.

Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston. Their three daughters, they believed, were being brainwashed by public school and mainstream media to support LGBTQ rights. American culture in general no longer offered white people the same opportunities as other races, they said.

The couple yearned to live in a place that shared their "Christian values" and where they "weren't going to be discriminated against" as white, politically-conservative Christians.

So in March, the Huffmans became the first family to move to a community planned for fellow English-speakers some 30 miles west of Moscow, a project they had been following online run by long-term American expat and former Kremlin-sponsored RT host Tim Kirby. The family is among a small but growing number of Americans who have moved to Russia because the United States, in their opinion, has become too “woke."

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/16/how-religious-is-your-state/

Religious profile of Mississippi

1st most religious state overall

61% (1st) say religion is very important in their lives

54% (1st) say they attend religious services at least monthly

62% (1st) say they pray daily

74% (1st) say they believe in God or a universal spirit with absolute certainty

50% in Mississippi are highly religious, based on an overall scale of religiousness

There was a much easier and better choice than Russia if they wanted to up their "more Christian environment" game.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Too many black people in Mississippi. Even if they are religious. Highest amount of African Americans percentage wise in the US.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But that's the wrong kind of religious.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But Orthodox Christian is fine??

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

If someone's opinions are entirely formed by Russian propaganda memes then yeah. This guy didn't pick Russia at random he chose it because he was influenced.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It doesn't matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It's an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.

These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that's a distinction without a difference.

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