Posted on 02/16/2009 6:05:01 PM PST by blueyon
A recent poll of more than 350,000 Americans on the importance of religion revealed that the nation is separated into enclaves of widely divergent viewpoints on faith, with some states and regions clearly religious and others significantly secular.
Gallup conducted a telephone poll of 355,334 U.S. adults, asking the question, "Is religion an important part of your daily life?"
As one might suspect, states from the "Bible Belt" scored the highest, with 85 percent of Mississippians and 79 percent of Tennesseeans, for example, answering yes.
The poll also revealed, however, that in addition to the Bible Belt, the U.S. also has a pair of "secular strips."
The New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine scored the lowest in the nation, with only 42 percent of Vermont residents – or less than half the percentage of those in Mississippi – answering yes.
The other "secular strip" can be found in the West, where Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Nevada all scored in the bottom 10 states for affirming religion's importance in daily life.
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The New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine scored the lowest in the nation, with only 42 percent of Vermont residents – or less than half the percentage of those in Mississippi – answering yes.
The other “secular strip” can be found in the West, where Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Nevada all scored in the bottom 10 states for affirming religion’s importance in daily life.
Sadly not surprising.
No surprise here from within the Peoples’ Soviet of Washington.
Is this pretty much an upside-down list of which States got what of the Porkulu$ Feast?
“......Is this pretty much an upside-down list of which States got what of the Porkulu$ Feast?.....”
Yep!
Illinois should not be green at all...
I have heard that only 4-6% of Washingtonians attend church regularly.
More than half the people here in New York believe? I’m really surprised.
Apparently they don’t believe in a Catholic kind of way, though, since the local diocese has shut down a number of schools and even churches.
Polls show, that most polls are worthless data!
How do you what is in the bill?
Dadgum Austin must’ve knocked us Texans down a bit...
Is there a correlation between how religious the people of a state say they are and other measures of morality? For example, in the more religious states are the following found? lower crime rates, fewer divorces, lower rates of child abuse, lower abortion rates, less teenage pregnancy, less homosexuality, etc.
It would be interesting to find out if there is any correlation.
Remember the country’s county map voting for DIMRATS in a recent election . . . correlated with crime stats . . .
look for something similar vis a vis authentic Christianity practiced earnestly.
Don’t know about the other metrics but one statistic stands out partly because there were recent articles in the news on this topic.
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina have among the highest STD rates in the country (in fact, these three states consistently rank in the Top 3 for multiple STDs.
PING!
Traditionally, the states with the lowest rates of divorce have been Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Divorce is usually correlated with levels of education, with those with a higher level of education less likely to divorce than those with a lower level. Don’t have any links, but this is what many polls have confirmed over the years. Been confirmed by my own eyes too (ie the poor and lower middle classes either don’t get married or get divorced within five, with PHDs and attorneys (!) typically getting married later, and having a lower rate of divorce.
Something is telling me to ping you (I don’t know what it is).
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