Here is an interesting graph

[Skip_In_Boulder]

I couldn't help but notice it almost exactly comports to the Mason-Dixon line.

[Sherman A1]

1. Interesting

and certainly telling.

[snappyturtle]

2. It does explain a lot. I moved from a very red county in TX last summer.

There were Baptist churches or store fronts for them everywhere!

[HereSince1628]

3. It captures what has been called Dixie better than the Mason-Dixon line

[ladjf]

4. Add to that chart the Catholic population percentages and it

will show that the two represent the biggest political blocs in America.

[seabeyond]

5. explains EVERYTHING. i had never heard a thing from baptist first half of my life

moved to texas and that is all that is around me. the education i have had. has been huge.... but so beyond what i had ever expereinced.

this says it all. thanks. kids are going to really appreciate this. see what the rest of the nation really looks like

ah ha. it is great for me. really needed this

[The Straight Story]

6. would be interesting see one for jews and muslims as well

Could explain some things.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. ...and atheists.

[Ptah]

12. You might be able to infer from this map:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. The SE is surprising. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Huh?? Godless in WVa? Enough to make me doubt the dataset. nt

[Ptah]

11. Main page here:

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

[TahitiNut]

8. Yes .. and "parochial" schools became white refuges from ...

... school integration in the 60s in the Jim Crow south, a boom for the "Baptists." (I lived there and saw it first hand. Appalling.) These 'schools' opened up all over Crowland, like dandelions in the spring. The revenues were a boon to right wing bigots.

[FLPanhandle]

9. What's up with the little black Nebraska county surrounded by white counties?

I guess all the Baptists in Nebraska congregated in one place.

[Brickbat]

15. The population of that county is about 400.

Doesn't take much to skew it.

[dawg]

10. I wouldn't read too much into it.

As a Southerner and a Baptist, I can tell you that the intolerence, racism, and general jackassery down here has little to do with the religion. If anything, they will bend their religious convictions in order to match their hateful prejudices and not vice-versa. If they were all Catholic, they would act just the same.

[seabeyond]

13. right. growing up in calif, i knew lots of catholics. very mellow. after all, they only had to

confess the sin then off to play...

here though.... catholics arent a lot different than the baptists.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Here's another.