Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Keeping the Faith

An interesting study about religion shows that nearly half of Americans have changed their religion, given up on religion altogether or in some cases became religious when they never were before.
The other interesting part is the statistics:
51% of Americans are Protestants
46% of foreign-born U.S. adults are Catholics
1.7% of Americans are Jews
1.7% of Americans are Mormons

The map showing the religious breakdown by state also fascinated me. New Jersey and New York each have 6% Jews, the most in the nation. Jews either live in New York/New Jersey, Maryland/DC, Florida or California. Nevada is the only state that has more than 1% Muslims. 58% of people in Utah are Mormon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Connecticut only has 1% Jews. Must be why I'm so damn lonely out here!