Denominational ranking by State and casual Political Relations

12 Most Catholic States

Casual Political Correlation

 

Rank

States (includes District of Columbia)

% of Total State Pop.

% of All Religious Adherents

Rank per Total Roman Catholic Pop.

State rankings according to number of the sixth Most Liberal Cities*, out of 30 large and small cities, (derived from http://www.epodunk.com/top10/liberal/index.html)

Rank of Jewish Per 1000

Evangelical Denominations Per 1000

State rankings per largest Evangelical Denominations



 

Nine most Southern Baptist States (the 2nd largest Christian type denomination in 1990)

1

RI

51.7

51.7

24



  #6 with CT, VT, + WA

# of cities

14

50

1

Arkansas

Alabama

1

2

Massachusetts

48.7

76

7

#2**

8

3

48

2

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

3

New Jersey

40.4

70

6

 

 

2

46

3

Alabama

Tennessee

4

Connecticut

40.3

69.6

13

#6 (RI see above)

1

1

47

4

Mississippi

Kentucky

5

New York

39.8

65.9

2

#5

2

7

43

5

Tennessee

S. Carolina

6

New Mexico

36.9

63.4

21

 

 

28

19

6

Kentucky

Arkansas

7

New Hampshire

34.9

73.2

25

 

 

23

44

7

S. Carolina

Georgia

8

Wisconsin

31.6

56.4

11

 

 

31

20

8

Georgia

N. Carolina

9

Illinois

31.2

56.4

4

 

 

10

30

9

N. Carolina

Virginia

10

Pennsylvania

31

53.4

5

 

 

9

39

10

Missouri

 

11

Louisiana

30.9

52.6

12

 

 

33

12

11

Texas

 

12

California

29.8

64.6

1

#1

9  

8

38

12

Louisiana

 

(MD is #3; ME #4)

*the term “liberal” being defined according to individual contributions to PACs, election returns and the number of homosexual households. **Massachusetts makes the top of the list of the most liberal cities in every category, and a close #2 overall after California, and with Maryland a distant 3rd. Sources: http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/Catholic_findings.htm http://www.epodunk.com/top10/liberal/index.html . http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html

Religion and the State

The 16 most Catholic (single largest religious denomination) states also contain 24 of the most liberal cities. And excluding (Maryland 26th), predominately Roman Catholic states contain all but one of the 30 most liberal cities (the term “liberal: being defined according to the above criteria). The ideology of the major cities is usually indicative of the entire state overall.

Contrariwise, states that are predominately Southern Baptist (the 2nd largest single Protestant denomination) contain none of the 30 most liberal cities.

Additional data of interest:

The four most Catholic states

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut (with Catholic populations exceeding 40%), have eight pro-abortion senators, including four Catholics

The 5 most prolife slates (Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, Wyoming, and Kansas) have only an 8.2% average Catholic percentage, while the five most pro-abortion states (Hawaii, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island) have a 44.3% average Catholic percentage. Complied from The Almanac of American Politics (1998), Congressional Quarterly (1997), The Official Catholic Directory for 1996. and the 1998 Catholic Almanac by Robert Kendra, 56 Mantup Rd., Putnam, CT 06260.http://www.trosch.org/chu/cathabor.htm

After four years (19972001) at a Catholic college, Catholic student support for legalized abortion increased from 37.9 percent to 51.7 percent, for premarital sex from 27.5 percent to 48.0 percent, and for "gay marriage" from 52.4 percent to 69.5 percent. UCLA study 2005. Reported by Anne Hendershott Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. Life Enterprises Unlimited. http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5360

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