Most religious states in the U.S.
Gallup just released its poll of religion across states. To be classified as "very religious" the respondent has to say that religion is important in their daily live and also that they attend religious services almost once a week. So, these are "regular church-goers" and their cohorts across other religions. The non-religious say religion is not important. The "moderately religious" say religion is important, but don;t attend regular services.
The bad news is that this year's poll slightly reversed the trend, moving slightly back toward religion (this is a poll of about 175,000 people). Check out the original link, above, for a listing of all the states from high to low.
I took the top ten and the bottom ten states. For these, I checked out Dave Leip's excellent "Atlas of U.S. Politics", getting presidential results for each of these states for 1996 through 2012. I wanted to visualize red-states and blue-states, and their correlation with religiosity. Here is the result:
Except for Bill Clinton's second-term election, the red/blue divide correlates almost perfectly with religion.
The bad news is that this year's poll slightly reversed the trend, moving slightly back toward religion (this is a poll of about 175,000 people). Check out the original link, above, for a listing of all the states from high to low.
I took the top ten and the bottom ten states. For these, I checked out Dave Leip's excellent "Atlas of U.S. Politics", getting presidential results for each of these states for 1996 through 2012. I wanted to visualize red-states and blue-states, and their correlation with religiosity. Here is the result:
Except for Bill Clinton's second-term election, the red/blue divide correlates almost perfectly with religion.
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