Religious Denomination Maps

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Minnesota:

Catholic: Bush 16 Kerry 9
Mainline: Bush 42 Kerry 15
Evangelical: Bush 5 Kerry 0

North Dakota:

Catholic: Bush 11 Kerry 3
Mainline: Bush 37 Kerry 1
Evangelical: Bush 1 Kerry 0

So far it looks like Catholic-majority counties are more Democratic than mainline Protestant counties (and of course Evangelical counties).

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Evangelical [in LA]: 32 Bush, 4 Kerry

I looked up the 4 Kerry Evangelical counties in LA, and all of them have black-majorities. So far there's not a single white-majority Evangelical county to vote for Kerry.

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Apparently the ELCA (actually BRTD's church) despite the name, is way more liberal than the LCMS.

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North Carolina: 91/100 counties have an Evangelical plurality.

The other nine (which have a Mainline plurality) are: Alamance, Dare, Davidson, Hyde, Moore, Orange, Pamlico, Perquimans, and Rowan.

Interestingly, Bush won the mainline counties 8-1, while he won the evangelical counties 72-19.

Even in the 2004 Senate race, Bowles only won two out of the nine Mainline counties.

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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

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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?

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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??