[Straight Vermonter]

New York	1,618,320	19,254,630	8.4
New Jersey	480,000	8,717,925	5.5
District of Columbia	28,000	550,521	5.1
Massachusetts	275,030	6,398,743	4.3
Maryland	235,350	5,600,388	4.2
Florida	653,435	17,789,864	3.7
California	1,194,190	36,132,147	3.3
Connecticut	111,830	3,510,297	3.2
Nevada	69,600	2,414,807	2.9
Pennsylvania	284,875	12,429,616	2.3
Illinois	278,810	12,763,371	2.2
Arizona	106,100	5,939,292	1.8
Colorado	78,620	4,665,177	1.7
Rhode Island	18,750	1,076,189	1.7
Delaware	13,500	843,524	1.6
Georgia	127,245	9,072,576	1.4
Virginia	97,840	7,567,465	1.3
Ohio	144,955	11,464,042	1.3
Missouri	59,165	5,800,310	1
Minnesota	46,685	5,132,799	0.9
Oregon	31,850	3,641,056	0.9
Michigan	87,665	10,120,860	0.9
Vermont	5,510	623,050	0.9
New Hampshire	9,970	1,309,940	0.8
Maine	10,315	1,321,505	0.8
Washington	43,135	6,287,759	0.7
Kansas	18,225	2,744,687	0.7
New Mexico	11,250	1,928,384	0.6
Texas	130,970	22,859,968	0.6
Alaska	3,425	663,661	0.5
Hawaii	6,990	1,275,194	0.5
Wisconsin	28,330	5,536,201	0.5
Louisiana	16,190	4,523,628	0.4
Nebraska	6,850	1,758,787	0.4
North Carolina	26,345	8,683,242	0.3
Tennessee	19,300	5,962,959	0.3
Kentucky	11,450	4,173,405	0.3
South Carolina	11,225	4,255,083	0.3
Indiana	17,420	6,271,973	0.3
Utah	4,400	2,469,585	0.2
Alabama	9,000	4,557,808	0.2
Iowa	6,140	2,966,334	0.2
North Dakota	430	636,677	0.1
Montana	850	935,670	0.1
Idaho	1,100	1,429,096	0.1
Arkansas	1,675	2,779,154	0.1
Oklahoma	5,050	3,547,884	0.1
Wyoming	430	509,294	0.1
West Virginia	2,335	1,816,856	0.1
Mississippi	1,500	2,921,088	0.1
South Dakota	295	775,933	(z)

Totals may not be exact due to rounding.

*Exclusive of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands which reported before 2002 Jewish populations of 1,500 and 350, respectively.

(z) Figure is less than 0.1 and rounds to 0.

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Source: Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky, “Jewish Population of the United States,

[Straight Vermonter]

Sorry, I left off the headers.

It should be “State”, “Jewish Population”, “Total Population”, “Pct of Jews”.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Your 0.1% Jewish Wyoming stat remined me of a a guy I knew, Jewish guy, a CCNY graduate no less, who really, really wanted to move to Wyoming, but he couldn’t get a job there. He worked in Massachusetts, wore a cowboy belt and boots. His boss, a fellow CCNY alum, used to call him the Jewish Cowboy. He was all Jewish, and for a dumpy fifty-something guy, all Cowboy.

I attended a Bat Mitzvah at his temple once and he looked surprised to see me, greeting me with “Shalom Shabat”, a greeting I warmly returned. I’ve been mistaken for a Yid more than once and never take offence.

[Gemsbok]

I’d like to add something to your state charts of Jewish voters. A professional pollster would have some way of weighing the Jewish percentages of voters to be greater, because they are highly likely to vote. This is true especially of the highly concentrated elderly vote living in retirement condos.