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« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2012, 10:29:50 PM »
« edited: May 08, 2012, 10:31:37 PM by Frodo »

Largest religious group by county:


Wow -look at all that blue.  If you took this map literally, you'd think the United States is predominately Catholic with a noticeably large Southern Baptist, Mormon, Methodist, and Evangelical Lutheran minority pockets...
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« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2012, 10:38:51 PM »

Largest religious group by county:


Wow -look at all that blue.  If you took this map literally, you'd think the United States is predominately Catholic with a noticeably large Southern Baptist, Mormon, Methodist, and Evangelical Lutheran minority pockets...

It's colored by plurality which can be quite misleading. Some of those blue counties are probably less than 20% Catholic.
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« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2012, 10:56:02 PM »

Largest religious group by county:


Wow -look at all that blue.  If you took this map literally, you'd think the United States is predominately Catholic with a noticeably large Southern Baptist, Mormon, Methodist, and Evangelical Lutheran minority pockets...

It's colored by plurality which can be quite misleading. Some of those blue counties are probably less than 20% Catholic.

And to Frodo's observation, one should conclude that it is nearly evenly divided between Catholics (1259) and Southern Baptists (1222) based on the number of counties for each.
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« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2012, 11:07:00 PM »

Largest religious group by county:


Wow -look at all that blue.  If you took this map literally, you'd think the United States is predominately Catholic with a noticeably large Southern Baptist, Mormon, Methodist, and Evangelical Lutheran minority pockets...

It's colored by plurality which can be quite misleading. Some of those blue counties are probably less than 20% Catholic.

And to Frodo's observation, one should conclude that it is nearly evenly divided between Catholics (1259) and Southern Baptists (1222) based on the number of counties for each.

I was speaking as a casual observer.  But point taken.  Still, it is remarkable just how heavily Catholic this map makes the US look, in comparison with its actual numbers (about a quarter of the population).   
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« Reply #29 on: May 09, 2012, 03:51:50 PM »

Now a much better map would be religious attendance, too bad that's too broad to make into a map, but it would be an interesting look once it's made, if ever.
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« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2012, 11:01:05 PM »

I think a more useful map might break the counties down by Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, and LDS.
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« Reply #31 on: May 22, 2012, 01:29:13 AM »

The decennial census of religions was released this week. The website shows the participation by county for a number of denominations. There is also a slide show report released to the press.

Adherents as a fraction of the population by county:


The numbers there are pretty low for Hampton Roads. It's certainly not because people here aren't religious. There's a lot of nondenominational or independent churches here  - from big screen latte megachurches to small holy roller street corner operations. And those purple and green areas extend all along the southeast coast and into the central Appalachians.  For a lot of this map, those low numbers reflect a particular type of religious involvement rather than its absence.
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