[Colofornian]

Interesting, Jackson, Mississippi made the list with 64% being "very religious". How does this jibe with an internal document from W-M that I was privy to, that showed that a W-M store in Jackson led the list of all W-M stores in the United States for "shrinkage", a combination of employee theft and shop lifting? [graybeard58, post #10]

Jackson, MS - 64% very religious
Burlington, VT - 17% very religious
Yet crime rates in Jackson are way higher than in Burlington. I guess high religiosity doesn’t equal lower crime rates or vice versa. [Hout8475]

Well, here may be the highest contrast on that "religiosity" list: The Birmingham-Hoover (AL) area came in at #4 of "religiosity" on that list (56%).

Yet when I go to this Web site & see this June 2012 article, I "wonder":

Birmingham ranks in the top five American cities for incidences of rape and property crime and No. 7 for violent crimes, according to a report by 247WallSt.com.
Source: Birmingham ranks high for violent crime

Going back at least 8-10 years, Birmingham has had a significantly high murder rate!

[Colofornian]

Re: my last post about Birmingham.

Hey, we've all heard about "jailhouse 'religion'"...While ALL jails have some genuine Christians in them, and many authentic transformations occur there, could it be that 60% of the Birmingham-based inmates are "religious" -- and wind up driving up the rate of "religiosity?"