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To: wideawake

I believe the Catholics in Maryland were greatly outnumbered by the Protestants at the time of the Revolution (in fact, Protestants had always been a majority there). Maryland had 320,000 people in 1790, about 8% of the total US population of 3.9 million. The Catholic population was something like 1% in the US overall, and not all of them lived in Maryland—even if they had, they’d have been only 1 in 8 of the population there.


13 posted on 03/24/2008 9:42:04 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus; wideawake

Catholics in Maryland nonetheless represented the elite in the state. Roger Teaney, the first Catholic Chief Justice, was a part of the Maryland Catholic elite. As a matter of fact, Catholics were one of the wealthiest religious groups in the country until the masses of shanty Irish came upon our shores, sending all socioeconomic indicators down for RCer due to their sheer numbers and poverty.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 9:45:12 AM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I believe the Catholics in Maryland were greatly outnumbered by the Protestants at the time of the Revolution

They were, but Catholics were greatly influential in the colony and were represented at the signing of the Declaration.

39 posted on 03/24/2008 10:51:38 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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