Religious Denomination Maps

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Why are Protestants so conservative?

In Ontario, politics was traditionally split down sectarian lines; Anglicans tended to be Tory, Catholics tended to be Liberals. Even though the sectarianism that sparked it has gone, the voting patterns remain... up to a point anyway (note the death of the federal Liberals in Catholic rural areas).

[Hatman 🍁]

Why are Protestants so conservative?

In Ontario, politics was traditionally split down sectarian lines; Anglicans tended to be Tory, Catholics tended to be Liberals. Even though the sectarianism that sparked it has gone, the voting patterns remain... up to a point anyway (note the death of the federal Liberals in Catholic rural areas).

Not to mention the fact that Paul Martin is catholic and Stephen Harper is protestant.  The Liberal leaders have had a tendancy to be catholic over time. Only 4 Liberal PMs have been protestant (most recently Pearson and he left in 1968). Only three catholic PMs have been Conservative (Mulroney and Clark the last two).

The NDP surprises me though. I don't think we've ever had a catholic leader and yet we dont do well in protestant ridings (in Ontario).

[nclib]

Florida:

All counties are Evangelical except: Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, Dade, Flagler, Glades, Hernando, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Seminole, and Volusia, which are Catholic.

Here's the breakdown for President:

Evangelical: Bush 40, Kerry 5
Catholic: Bush 16, Kerry 6

and the Senate:

Evangelical: Nelson 37, Harris 8
Catholic: Nelson 20, Harris 2

[CultureKing]

Go Washington, least holiest state!

I personally like many washintonians, have been to church once though, so dont worry about me

[ottermax]

I'm not surprised by Washington's lack of religion.

Here is Ontario by riding (congressional districts)

Votes by religion

Jewish ridings: 1 Liberal
Non religious ridings: 5 Liberal, 2 NDP
Catholic ridings: 30 Liberal, 9 NDP, 7 Conservative
Protestant ridings: 34 Conservative, 18 Liberal, 1 NDP

I believe that Jewish riding has most of my Jewish relatives living there. They are all liberals, and everything in that part of Toronto is very Jewish.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Here is Canada:

Interesting. I'm surprised that:

1. Quebec is still as Catholic as it is

2. protestants or catholics outnumber "no religion" in most of Ontario

3. that so much of Ontario is Catholic (though I don't know...is that due to spillover from Quebec?)

[Smash255]

How do you find the breakdowns by county per state?

[Alcon]

Do you know if there's any county that is majority non-religious?

The only survey to do by county and include non-religious people estimated the religious population at 50.03% countrywide, which is more like the religious population not belonging to a congregation.

The lowest rate for a county I've been able to find on that in a county reasonably large/populated to actually have its own churches is Ferry County, Washington, at 16.71%.  However, there could easily be people going to adjacent counties there.  The lowest genuine rate I've been able to find of a definitely self-sustained county is probably San Juan County, Washington's 17.15% - since San Juan County is entirely made of islands, after all.

Only one Washington county, Franklin, is above average in religious attendance; the only other to come close is Adams.  Both share one thing:  Hispanics accounting for about half the population.

[nclib]

I compiled the results for Ohio and found this:

Catholic counties were: Allen, Ashtabula, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Geauga, Hamilton, Huron, Jefferson, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Medina, Mercer, Montgomery, Noble, Portage, Putnam, Seneca, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Trumbull

Evangelical counties were: Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Fulton, Gallia, Greene, Highland, Holmes, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Pike, Preble, Scioto, Warren, Wayne

The remaining counties were Mainline.

By President 2004:

Catholic: Bush 14 Kerry 13
Mainline: Bush 41 Kerry 1
Evangelical: Bush 17 Kerry 2

Quite a big gap between Catholic counties and Protestant counties in Ohio...


Does anyone know how to make a map of this?

[Padfoot]

I compiled the results for Ohio and found this:

Catholic counties were: Allen, Ashtabula, Clermont, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Geauga, Hamilton, Huron, Jefferson, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Medina, Mercer, Montgomery, Noble, Portage, Putnam, Seneca, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Trumbull

Evangelical counties were: Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Fulton, Gallia, Greene, Highland, Holmes, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Pike, Preble, Scioto, Warren, Wayne

The remaining counties were Mainline.

By President 2004:

Catholic: Bush 14 Kerry 13
Mainline: Bush 41 Kerry 1
Evangelical: Bush 17 Kerry 2

Quite a big gap between Catholic counties and Protestant counties in Ohio...


Does anyone know how to make a map of this?

Just modify one of the Ohio election results maps using a paint program or something.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'm not surprised by Washington's lack of religion.

Here is Ontario by riding (congressional districts)

Votes by religion

Jewish ridings: 1 Liberal
Non religious ridings: 5 Liberal, 2 NDP
Catholic ridings: 30 Liberal, 9 NDP, 7 Conservative
Protestant ridings: 34 Conservative, 18 Liberal, 1 NDP

I believe that Jewish riding has most of my Jewish relatives living there. They are all liberals, and everything in that part of Toronto is very Jewish.

FYI, Thornhill is not actually in Toronto, it's a suburb.

Here is Canada:

Interesting. I'm surprised that:

1. Quebec is still as Catholic as it is

2. protestants or catholics outnumber "no religion" in most of Ontario

3. that so much of Ontario is Catholic (though I don't know...is that due to spillover from Quebec?)

1. They are very catholic, just not at all religious.
2. Not really. Ontario can be very traditional in terms of religion. Not like those hippies out in BC
3. I wouldn't call it a spill over necessarily. Areas with high French/ Italian/ Irish populations will have a lot of Catholics.

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The political divisions in Minnesota seem not only to be on religious, but also on ethnic grounds.

The western, far southern, and the northwestern areas are dominated mostly by Scandinavian ethnicities that tend to be more socially conservative but economically liberal.  Many areas along the Red River of the North and the Minnesota River are trending Republican in presidential politics, but are still solidly democratic in statewide races.  These areas are mostly Lutheran/Catholic.  My city in north-central MN is dominated by ELCA and Catholics with 1 LCMS church and a few Baptist/assembly of God churches. 

My family is split between ELCA and LCMS and their political divisions also seem to follow this trend with the ELCA Lutherans solidly liberal and the LCMS more conservative.

Northeastern Minnesota is more democratic than it is liberal.  While it is economically radical, it is socially conservative.  This area has a strong eastern European influence and there are more Catholics here. 

Most of northern and western Minnesota have a strong tradition of radical liberals with the socialist "Farmer-Labor" party performing strongly here until it merged with the Democrats in 1944.

The central part of MN is a different story.  This area was settled by conservative Catholic Germans.  Most of these people vote Republican and have strengthened that trend in recent years, though even Stearns County, a German-Catholic stronghold, voted for Klobuchar over Mark Kennedy.  There are a few communities of predominantly Irish Catholics who tend to vote Democrat. 

It'll be interesting to see where the state goes as it becomes more secular and diverse.

[RBH]

Kentucky maps

First by the Evangelical/Mainline/Catholic split



And by the specific denominations



SBC- Southern Baptists
Methodist- United Methodist Church
CC/CoC- Christian Churches and Churches of Christ
FWB- Independent Free Will Baptists Associations
COG(AI) - Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
OMBA- Old Missionary Baptists Associations (aka Old Time Missionary Baptist)
EBA- Enterprise Baptists Association
CBA- Conservative Baptist Association of America

Gotta love how there's 8 different denominations, and five of them are Baptist denominations,

[RBH]

Tennessee

Every county is SBC plurality except

Cheatham (Churches of Christ)
Clay (Churches of Christ)
Hickman (Churches of Christ)
Jackson (Churches of Christ)
Macon (Old Missionary Baptist Associations)

[RBH]

Split
Evangelical: Bush 194, Kerry 1
Mainline: Bush 2, Kerry 0
Catholic: Bush 40, Kerry 17

I think I got a correct count on the number of Catholic plurality/majority counties

[Filuwaúrdjan]

IIRC Western Kentucky is one of the most Baptist parts of the U.S.

[Verily]

Here's a great link:

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

I suppose my family was strange for being Presbyterian in a county where Presbyterians account for less than 1% of the population. It seems odd, then, that there were two Presbyterian churches in my hometown.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

According to those maps, I was once a Lutheran living in a county with no Lutherans. (Of course my family went to church in another county usually so we'd probably be counted there)

[Alcon]

According to those maps, I was once a Lutheran living in a county with no Lutherans. (Of course my family went to church in another county usually so we'd probably be counted there)

Yeah.

[nclib]

Kentucky maps

First by the Evangelical/Mainline/Catholic split

Looks like Kentucky has 11 (out of 114) Evangelical counties that went for Kerry. I looked up Kentucky's exit poll and found that Kerry did better among Evangelicals in Kentucky than nationally. Does anyone know why this is? Perhaps Eastern Kentucky is quite economically liberal??

[RBH]

Kentucky maps

First by the Evangelical/Mainline/Catholic split

Looks like Kentucky has 11 (out of 114) Evangelical counties that went for Kerry. I looked up Kentucky's exit poll and found that Kerry did better among Evangelicals in Kentucky than nationally. Does anyone know why this is? Perhaps Eastern Kentucky is quite economically liberal??

quite is one way to put it

[Verily]

Kentucky maps

First by the Evangelical/Mainline/Catholic split

Looks like Kentucky has 11 (out of 114) Evangelical counties that went for Kerry. I looked up Kentucky's exit poll and found that Kerry did better among Evangelicals in Kentucky than nationally. Does anyone know why this is? Perhaps Eastern Kentucky is quite economically liberal??

quite is one way to put it

"Extremely" might be more accurate, however.

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Bump.

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Here is the rank for "most Christian" per the City University of New York survey:

1. Alabama - 92%
1. South Carolina - 92%
3. South Dakota - 91%
4. Louisiana - 90%
4. Nebraska - 90%
6. North Carolina - 88%
7. Mississippi - 86%
7. North Dakota - 86%
9. Georgia - 85%
9. Wisconsin - 85%
11. Virginia - 84%
12. Connecticut - 83%
13. Alaska - 82%
13. Florida - 82%
13. Indiana - 82%
13. Maine - 82%
13. Maryland - 82%
13. Michigan - 82%
13. Montana - 82%
13. Tennessee - 82%
21. Arkansas
21. New Mexico - 81%
21. Rhode Island - 81%
21. Texas - 81%
25. Arizona - 80%
25. Illinois - 80%
25. New Hampshire - 80%
28. Delaware - 79%
28. Idaho - 79%
28. Massachusetts - 79%
28. Pennsylvania - 79%
32. Nevada - 78%
32. Oklahoma - 78%
32. Wyoming - 78%
35. California - 77%
35. Missouri - 77%
37. Kentucky - 76%
37. Minnesota - 76%
39. Colorado - 75%
39. Oregon - 75%
39. Utah - 75%
39. West Virginia - 75%
43. Iowa - 74%
43. Ohio - 74%
43. Vermont - 74%
46. Kansas - 73%
47. District of Columbia - 72%
48. New Jersey - 70%
49. Hawai'i - 68%
49. New York - 68%
51. Washington - 63%

Just for reference...

KS, OH and WV lower than OR, ME and MA? CT higher than TX?

[phk]

Here is the rank for "most Christian" per the City University of New York survey:

1. Alabama - 92%
1. South Carolina - 92%
3. South Dakota - 91%
4. Louisiana - 90%
4. Nebraska - 90%
6. North Carolina - 88%
7. Mississippi - 86%
7. North Dakota - 86%
9. Georgia - 85%
9. Wisconsin - 85%
11. Virginia - 84%
12. Connecticut - 83%
13. Alaska - 82%
13. Florida - 82%
13. Indiana - 82%
13. Maine - 82%
13. Maryland - 82%
13. Michigan - 82%
13. Montana - 82%
13. Tennessee - 82%
21. Arkansas
21. New Mexico - 81%
21. Rhode Island - 81%
21. Texas - 81%
25. Arizona - 80%
25. Illinois - 80%
25. New Hampshire - 80%
28. Delaware - 79%
28. Idaho - 79%
28. Massachusetts - 79%
28. Pennsylvania - 79%
32. Nevada - 78%
32. Oklahoma - 78%
32. Wyoming - 78%
35. California - 77%
35. Missouri - 77%
37. Kentucky - 76%
37. Minnesota - 76%
39. Colorado - 75%
39. Oregon - 75%
39. Utah - 75%
39. West Virginia - 75%
43. Iowa - 74%
43. Ohio - 74%
43. Vermont - 74%
46. Kansas - 73%
47. District of Columbia - 72%
48. New Jersey - 70%
49. Hawai'i - 68%
49. New York - 68%
51. Washington - 63%

Just for reference...

KS, OH and WV lower than OR, ME and MA? CT higher than TX?

Irish Catholics of the North East have real high church attendance rates.