U.S. is still overwhelmingly Christian, study finds

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-religion26feb26,0,4582086.story

Yeah, in other news the sky is still blue, but I found this interesting:

But Catholics also lost more adherents than any other single religious group in the United States, with one in three adults who were raised as Catholics no longer in that church, the study said. Roughly 10% of Americans are former Catholics.

"These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration," the study said.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My guess is that, with nonreligious and atheist identification becoming more mainstream, nonreligious people who in the past identified as Catholic (due to heritage, ceremony, etc.) are now identifying as nonreligious. Nonreligious people identifying with a religion has, historically, been pretty much exclusively a Catholic phenomenon, so it would strike Catholicism harder for "no religion" to become mainstream.

But only 16.1% of Americans in the study are unaffiliated, and ex-Catholics make up around 10%. There's clearly some overlap, but that's not just it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Only 51% are Protestants now.

Who cares? We are still a majority!

Self-identified Protestants are, actual Protestants are probably not (for the first time, maybe)

What's the difference?