Possible Clues:

• Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia etc, where church attendance is high
• American region of religious fundamentalism
• Regions of the US where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant
• Business attire at Yale Divinity School?
• Religious tract?
• Fundamentalist tract's bitterness about bishop going on strike
• Bishop, beset by ill-feeling, gets hit in some fundamentalist states
• Christian fundamentalist areas of the US
• Much of the Southeast is in it
• Churchgoing region