44%+

According to the 2008 Gallup poll of American national opinion, 44% of Americans (136 million people) believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." (That's as quoted by Richard Dawkins on p. 429 of his 2010 book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.)
    Forty-four percent of the 150,000 people who live in Alamance County (it's probably more than 44% in this part of North Carolina) are represented by three letters that appeared together this week in the Times-News, published in Burlington, a town of somewhat more than 50,000. Going by the letters' titles (and the fact that no dissenting letters were selected¹), I'd guess that the editor also represents the 44%+.

    The first letter, "Christian evolutionists pose the wrong questions," comes from a town of 15,000. It ends with the rhetorical question:

If man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever [which the writer seems to believe is so], what purpose could God have for creating man in His image through the process of evolution to bring glory to Himself after billions of years of trial and error?

The writer's implicit answer seems to be that God could not have such a purpose, therefore He didn't create man through the process of evolution.
    The second letter, "Evolution is not the truth and is incompatible with Christianity," is from Burlington. Indeed this writer doesn't resort to rhetorical implication but comes right out with it:

First, God does not supervise, he performs the creation.
    Second, those positions (Creation and evolution) cannot be compatible because the two sides are as different as day and night or black and white, impossible to be compatible. [I agree with this.]
    [The columnist who] writes: "The Creator never told us how he creates"...must never have read the Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 3: God said let there be light and there was light...God only has to say let there be, and there is.

    The third letter, from someone who lives in a town of about 7,000, seems to hope to stump science with a difficult question:

Maybe one of [those brilliant scientists who say we derived from monkeys] can answer me a question about that. If that be so, and we all came from monkeys, then how come we still have monkeys?

The editor, in titling this letter "A question for the backers of evolution theory," seems to flatly contradict Richard Dawkins, whose book opens with the statement:

The evidence for evolution grows by the day, and has never been stronger. At the same time, paradoxically, ill-informed opposition is also stronger than I can remember. This book is my personal summary of the evidence that the "theory" of evolution is actually a fact—as incontrovertible a fact as any in science.

By the way, the answer to the third writer's (and possibly the editor's) question is that man didn't evolve from monkeys, but both man and monkey evolved from a common ancestor.
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1. Not that there were any dissenting letters to select. Around here, why bother?