Barton was so loose with his facts, so lazy with his analysis, that he made Bolin look meticulous by comparison. At one point, Barton told the story of a Black evangelist named Harry Hosier, who traveled the American frontier preaching to farmers in the early 1800s. Asserting that Indiana residents, “Hoosiers,” had inherited their nickname from a Black Christian—a claim that is not factual—Barton marveled at the people who somehow believe that America has a problem with racism.
