TAKE A LOOK AT THE "VALUES VOTE" MAP (magnitude of the conservative win)

11/5/04

[Liz]

PREDICTIONS: Once she sees this map, opportunistic Hillary will start holding prayer services in her Senate office.

Hillary will start attending church services, carrying a Bible.

Look for Hillary to "moderate" her radical FemiNazi positions on abortion----she might even introduce a bill to outlaw the use of scissors to pierce a baby's skull in the p/b abortion procedure, in favor of using something more "sensitive"......../sarc).

[Miss Behave]

My prediction that I posted earlier this evening: Cankles will learn to speak SPANISH.

I'm struck by the solid "Catholic-ness" of California. I know that Latinos are usually Roman Catholic, but LOOK at California!

[AJS]

>>>I'm struck by the solid "Catholic-ness" of California. I know that Latinos are usually Roman Catholic, but LOOK at California!<<<


Yes, my thoughts, exactly... and am frustrated as to why they break so for the left.

[Prime Choice]

This is absurd. It shows California as being 99.9% Catholic. I've been living in this state for 13 years and in all this time, I've only met ONE Catholic. The rest are all Unitarian-Universalists, Wiccans and other fringe religions.

[Still German Shepherd]

I'm amazed at the solid blue California as well. My neighborhood in Orange County is pretty much solid Protestant and Mormon. It must be the Latinos...?

[Porterville]

Seems to me that the Catholics are ripe for harvesting in the NE and West Coast.

[Porterville]

Um, everyone is or wants to be Catholic in California. Even the heathens.

[whoozit]

Lots of protestant counties in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, but not enough to counter the metropolitan areas.

[planekT]

>>>I'm struck by the solid "Catholic-ness" of California. I know that Latinos are usually Roman Catholic, but LOOK at California!<<<

The border of Texas also.

[Miss Behave]

Yes, it's odd. Latinos are pro-life and are VERY religious. It seems that it would have to fall to the possibilty that many in California look to reciepts of government programs, and that [the need for] those monies trumps a following of their values. Desperation does strange things.

I could be ALL wet and WAY off base, AND making broad generalizations. Just talking off of the top of my head for sure.

[snarks_when_bored]

I believe that the map simply colors a county based on the largest religious denomination among registered voters, which means that if a county has, say, 10,000 registered voters, and 1,000 are Catholic, but no other denomination has more registered voters than that, then the county gets colored blue. And so on. We're not talking absolute numbers of believers.

[Still German Shepherd]

-----Um, everyone is or wants to be Catholic in California. Even the heathens.-----

Hm, I know plenty of Protestants who are quite happy to be what they are. In fact, thinking further about our area here, and other areas I'm familiar with in CA, and the Protestant churches far outnumber the Catholic churches. I am wondering about the accuracy of the blueness of CA.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

The map only shows if there are more Catholics or Protestants in each county.

It takes no account of how many Jews, atheists, and pagans there might be. California has a lot of them.

[Still German Shepherd]

Here's a link to the publisher's description of the book. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/American/?ci=019509168X&view=usa. I don't think the map from it has anything to do with registered voters.

[Miss Behave]

"Seems to me that the Catholics are ripe for harvesting in the NE and West Coast."

I noticed the same solid "blueness" of the NE. My feeling about Catholics in that part of the country is that they are like Rice Butt--white, liberal, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do, Cafeteria Catholics. I think the dynamics/demographics of their Catholicism is much different than those in California and along the Tex-Mex border.

[snarks_when_bored]

You're right. Delete "registered voters" from my post. The rest of it is valid, I think.

[GOP_Raider]

I'm struck by the solid "Catholic-ness" of California.

Only because "Communist/Marxist", "Veganism", and "Pagan/Satan Worship" weren't really considered "religions" I would guess.

[Still German Shepherd]

It would be interesting to know how they got their info. Whatever the case, this is a very useful map.

[snarks_when_bored]

Agreed on both counts.

[Fledermaus]

I never realized how many Catholics live on the West coast.