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Related: About this forumThe second-largest religion in each state
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/04/the-second-largest-religion-in-each-state/BY REID WILSON
June 4 at 4:13 pm
Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States; more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. A little more than half of us identify as Protestants, about 23 percent as Catholic and about 2 percent as Mormon.
But what about the rest of us? In the Western U.S., Buddhists represent the largest non-Christian religious bloc in most states. In 20 states, mostly in the Midwest and South, Islam is the largest non-Christian faith tradition. And in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, Judaism has the most followers after Christianity. Hindus come in second place in Arizona and Delaware, and there are more practitioners of the Bahai faith in South Carolina than anyone else.
All these data come from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, which conducts a U.S. Religion Census every 10 years. Heres what their map of the second-most-practiced religions looks like:
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The second-largest religion in each state (Original Post)
cbayer
Jun 2014
OP
It's weird to lump Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Orthodox into the same bunch. nt
Xipe Totec
Jun 2014
#2
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. I know. Who would have thought that?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)2. It's weird to lump Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Orthodox into the same bunch. nt
cbayer
(146,218 posts)4. They do a more specific breakdown further down in the article