Posted on 04/21/2018 6:39:44 PM PDT by caww
Babptist, Episcopal
Oh this is better....thank you !
Interesting to see Great Britain and Japan overlaid on Africa there....how such tiny countries thrive yet Africans don’t appear to get their people up and running after all these decades.
Shouldn’t the Dearborn, MI area be Muslim?
A lot of Middle Easterners there are Christians. I believe Catholics are the single largest religious group in Wayne Co., MI.
And who are the Evangelicals? Other branches of the above who are sprung from more recent --- usually doctrinally more conservative --- reformers.
The Evangelicals generally split when the old denomination went liberal: that would be like Lutheran Missouri Synod, Continuing Anglican, and any churches with "Evangelical" in their name, like "Evangelical Presbyterian" and "Evangelical Methodist." The Evangelical Protestants would also include non-denominationals, house churches, Bible Fellowships, in fact almost anybody with "Bible" or "Fellowship" in their name.
The Mainlines are members of the National Council of Churches and are liberal. They are in rather precipitous numerical decline. The Evangelicals are not NCC members and are more conservative, and tend to be growing.
That's just a thumbnail sketch. Myself, I'm a Catholic and I may not be completely up on these things. Maybe an Evangelical will jump in here and give a more nuanced interpretation.
In Wisconsin, the first big wave of immigrants was from areas in the western part of Germany and from Luxembourg - Catholic areas. Another area contributing was Bavaria. German immigration was strong to Wisconsin, and Lutherans also came. Later large pockets of Polish as well.
The Scandinavian wave began about 5 years later and amazingly, much of the areas in Wisconsin had already been settled, so Scandinavian Lutherans began filling in western Wisconsin and spilled over into Minnesota. Percentage-wise, Wisconsin has more Germans than any other group. In Minnesota, the Germans outnumber the Swedes, Norwegians and Danish individually, but if you combine the last 3 countries, they are the largest group.
Thank-you. Another historical gap in my mind has been filled!
Thanks for the ping.
You're right. Florida's a perfect example - we have lots of Americans here who are of Hispanic heritage... BUT NOT ILLEGAL. They're as American as the rest of us...
Many here in CA too. And of course by now many many people who are mixed like my child. And some illegals are from other parts of the world and that is wrong as well. Like that President we used to have.
Speaking as an evangelical (former mainline), your answer was crystal clear, and in detail! But your accuracy shouldn't surprise anyone who's been on FR for some time...
You are kind.
In your case, it’s effortless.
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