Who Believes What, Where « Just Another Pretty Farce

Who Believes What, Where

February 1, 2008 by Katherine Coble

It’s a map showing the predominant belief in counties across the United States. I had no idea that Michigan skewed so heavily Catholic.

on February 1, 2008 at 10:45 am | Reply dolphin

Interesting. I wonder if every county in the entire US is predominantly Christian or if only denominations of Christianity (if you include Mormonism in that) were counted.
on February 1, 2008 at 2:31 pm | Reply nm

Looks to me like they counted only Christians. Otherwise there would be some plurality Jewiswh counties outside of NYC, and a bunch of Native American belief counties here and there.
on February 2, 2008 at 2:17 am | Reply Liz

I was about to say the same thing, nm.

Still, it’s interesting to see how the different beliefs are distributed.
on February 2, 2008 at 3:46 pm | Reply jay

MI is so heavily Catholic because of a large Italian and Eastern Europe population. Heavy industry in the rust belt, unions etc…

Without even looking at the map, I bet northern Ohio is the same way.
on February 2, 2008 at 7:12 pm | Reply Patrick

Commenters… note the title of the map. This is about “plurality of churches,” not number of Christians or number of religious adherents. For that reason, entities not known as “churches” (i.e. synagogues, cults and atheist organizations) aren’t part of the map.
on February 3, 2008 at 11:38 am | Reply Lee

Ahh, I am a Lutheran awash in a sea of Baptists.