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The five most Catholic states in the U.S., according to a recent Gallup survey, are all on the East Coast: Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. The least Catholic states are mostly in the South.
Immigration is changing that.
My Catholic relatives (of Italian descent) live on Long Island, New York and Massachusetts....at least most of them do.
And most of them vote Republican, so to every rule there are exceptions.
My first cousin is an elementary school teacher in the New York area, and she and her husband are staunch Republicans.
She hates Obama, and told me she doesn’t invite her fellow teachers to her house anymore because she can’t stand to be around them.