Visualizations : Dominant Religious Self-Descriptor

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Created by: Belarius Created on: Saturday November 17, 8:22 PM

Data file: Dominant Religious Self-Descriptor

Data source: The Graduate Center

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Matt McKeon says:

Catholics may be the most cohesive self-identified group, but numerically they tend to be the minority. I bet that in most places if you aggregate the percentages of Baptist, Evangelical, "Protestant", "Christian", and other self-idents that correspond to mainstream American Christianity you'd get a plurality that exceeds the percentage of Catholics.

Posted Monday November 19, 10:31 AM
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Matt McKeon says:

Also, great data set! Did you hand-jam the whole thing and summarize it here? If so I'd love to see the complete state/religion breakdown.

Posted Monday November 19, 10:33 AM

Belarius says:

Why stop at the state level?

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

This really excellent set of data breaks the country down into much smaller segments, and shows the strong geographic clustering of various faiths. These clusterings turn out to be very strong predictors of various social and political attitudes.

As to Catholicism vs. Protestantism, it's true that America is predominantly Protestant, but my experience is that most Protestant sects vehemently self-identify, to the exclusion of other sects. Just try telling a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Calvinist (i.e. Evangelical), and a Mormon that they belong to the "same group," and you can expect a heated response. Additionally, I'm curious in what way Catholics aren't "mainstream." ;-)

Posted Monday November 19, 6:02 PM

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