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Color-Coded Maps Reveal Religious Adherents of U.S. Citizens
VirtueOnline-News ^ | 1/10/2007

Posted on 01/11/2007 9:35:50 AM PST by sionnsar

The color-coded maps at this link reveal the religious adherents as a percentage of all U.S. residents, 2000

Submitted by David W. Virtue
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http://robotwisdom.com/issues/religmaps.html


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You'll have to click through to see the maps, and there are a lot of them. The Episcopal Church membership map was intriguing.
1 posted on 01/11/2007 9:35:52 AM PST by sionnsar
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It was interesting to see that Episcopals are not a majority in any US county and that they most Episcopalian counties in the US are in SD of all places.

It was also interesting to see such a high concentration of Jews in Idaho and to see that only two counties in the US seem to be majority Reformed.

2 posted on 01/11/2007 9:45:58 AM PST by wideawake
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That concentration in Idaho is in a resort region, Sun Valley.


3 posted on 01/11/2007 9:49:35 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Oh, that makes sense. Californians buying homes in Sun Valley. Thanks.


4 posted on 01/11/2007 9:50:40 AM PST by wideawake
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5 posted on 01/11/2007 9:51:49 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Looks like this source is from the 2000 census. Any thoughts?

6 posted on 01/11/2007 9:53:23 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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.1 to 10% Reformed in my county, per that. Where are they?


7 posted on 01/11/2007 9:55:33 AM PST by Lee N. Field
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To: Salvation

It's interesting that the spots with the largest concentrations of Catholics are in the historically Spanish (CA, NM, TX) or French (MT, ND, MI, LA, MA, very upstate NY) areas of the country.


8 posted on 01/11/2007 9:59:30 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Salvation

Fascinating maps, thanks for posting!


9 posted on 01/11/2007 10:02:13 AM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: sionnsar

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.


10 posted on 01/11/2007 10:05:02 AM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: sionnsar

Kind of funny, my home county in Nebraska has one of the highest percentage of LCMS memebers in the area.


11 posted on 01/11/2007 10:07:58 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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The dark blue bulls eye in central Minnesota represents the historic ties to the Benedictine priests and nuns who came to the county in 1856 from Germany to serve the newly arrived immigrants from the Rheinland in Germany and Luxembourg. After news of the arrival of priests and nuns to set up churches and schools, more Catholic immigrants came to the county from other places in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Poland and Ireland.
12 posted on 01/11/2007 10:10:15 AM PST by Gumdrop
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The Catholic part of the map cannot be accurate - according to the map every county in Georgia has no reported Catholics.

There are almost 400,000 Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese, and about 5-6% of the state is Catholic.

13 posted on 01/11/2007 10:11:17 AM PST by wideawake
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In my Ohio County, along Lake Erie, I know alot of catholic immigrants came to work in the steel mills and industrial plants along the Great Lakes.


14 posted on 01/11/2007 10:12:20 AM PST by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: sionnsar

Something is wrong. Not one SuperDuperMegaChurch is listed. You mean all those other churches are BIGGER than the megachurches??? It can't be!


15 posted on 01/11/2007 10:28:45 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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All those blue counties in the upper midwest aren't French. They're German and Czech, and Irish in the bigger cities.

I grew up in that part of the world. Practically everyone was either German or Czech and Catholic, or German or Scandinavian and Lutheran.

16 posted on 01/11/2007 10:34:49 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: wideawake

If you look closely, most of the counties in Georgia show 0.1 - 10% as being Catholics. The color of that percentage is kind of a very light beige, so hard to tell if you don't look closely.


17 posted on 01/11/2007 10:35:39 AM PST by jkl1122
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It was interesting to see that Episcopals are not a majority in any US county and that they most Episcopalian counties in the US are in SD of all places

Those SD counties are Indian reservation counties. Very sparsely populated, and evidently the site of considerable Episcopalian evangelistic activity at some point.

18 posted on 01/11/2007 10:39:21 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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It's interesting that the spots with the largest concentrations of Catholics are in the historically Spanish (CA, NM, TX) or French (MT, ND, MI, LA, MA, very upstate NY) areas of the country.

Yes, and that is where they sent the missionaries to the Indians. My original home county, Glacier County in Montana, has one of the largest concentrations of Catholics. That is the home of the Blackfeet Reservation, where the Jesuits served. I believe the other dark blue spots in Montana are also Indian reservations.

19 posted on 01/11/2007 10:52:44 AM PST by Titanites
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I know at least 2 counties in NY which have Orthodox churches and have 'none reported'. Wonder what their reporting scheme is.
20 posted on 01/11/2007 10:57:43 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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