A craziness difficult to understand for Europeans
• Miseducation
As with the racial segregation of schools up through the 1960s, creationism also has tended to be strongest in the states of the Civil War South, though it is by no means restricted to there! However, I know of no one from the South who learned about evolution in school before college. Teachers are often subtly (and not too subtly) discouraged from even mentioning evolution. So with schools teaching around evolution and many churches actively arguing against evolution many students only ever hear creationist arguments.