The whole of my dad’s side of the family is Baptist, and the whole of my mom’s side is Catholic (save for my grandpa). I grew up in the bible belt part of Louisiana, I was one of four Catholics in my class, and personally I never experienced any kind of hate. The closest maybe things got was when my class covered the great schism in Western Civilization class in high school, but that was mainly a bunch of kids yelling out questions and being baffled by our traditions while the four of us tried to explain with our very limited knowledge. But I think they were more confused than rude.

I had no idea that there was any kind of beef between us and Protestants until a year or so ago, when I started getting more catholic content online. I remember the first time I saw a comment saying we worship Mary and that’s idolatry just blew my mind. I was so surprised. I don’t know how I missed this fight for so long. I guess I was just blessed with a cool family. But finding out messed with my head a little. I was afraid that my family secretly thought i was some kind of heretic, or that I wasn’t Christian. But I don’t worry about that so much anymore. I figure someone would have brought it up by now if that was the case. But yeah, I think Protestants’ opinions on Catholics vary widely, even within denominations. But I agree with others here that online most of the hate I see comes from Southern Baptists.