Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Wyoming, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, South Dakota, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey, Alaska, New York, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia, Kansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Arizona, Michigan, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, California, Missouri, Kentucky, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Utah, Indiana, and last, Nevada.
Rhode Island is at a little over 2.5%. Nevada at just under .3%. The numbers from this list are from 2000, so may have changed. In 1990, the top ten went: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wyoming, Virginia, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, South Dakota, Vermont, and New Hampshire. So there is a little jockeying around, but it seems mostly consistent.
Well, it seems a hair weighted toward the East Coast… Wyoming being number 4 is the confusing thing (or the big hint, I suppose).
I am assuming since the two data points are from 2000 and 1990 that this is from census data.
Wyoming came as a bit of a surprise. I plan to look at it further.
8 out of the top 10 are on the East Coast. The two that ain’t are the two states where NOBODY LIVES. Wyoming? South Dakoka? And North Dakota is in the bottom 10??? What in the hell does South Dakota have that North Dakota doesn’t? It’s one state! It’s “Dakota”!
Canadiens.
Oops. Got that backwards. Uhhh. Absence of Canadiens?
Given New England’s prominence here and the overall percentages for the country as a whole working out about right, I was going to make a shot in the dark guess here and say Episcopalians as a percentage of population, but that doesn’t work because Massachusetts is the largest Episcopalian diocese and has less population than Virginia but ranks below Virginia on these lists.
I’d expect the Episcopalian population of Connecticut, at least, to be greater than 2.5%.
Actually, Mark, you nailed it. I’m not sure about the Massachusetts thing, but my source was The ARDA. The source for the 90’s was Adherents.
On a sidenote, it’s kind of funny that Nevada is at the bottom of the list. The Presiding Bishop (Katherine Shori) was previously the Bishop of the Diocese of Nevada.
Here I’d thought of RI an an overwhelmingly Catholic state, particularly with its large Italian-American population. (And indeed, ARDA says it’s more than 44% Catholic.)
One wonders whether a Wyoming Episcopalian is getting the same sorts of homilies a Connecticut Episcopalian does.
I am honestly shocked by this one. It was a shot in the dark guess to begin with, but when I saw that wikipedia said Massachusetts has the biggest diocese, I was convinced it was wrong. It occurs to me that there are probably several different ways of counting here. It is also possible that the schism over Bishop Robinson in the mid-aughts may be responsible for the discrepancy since IIRC that had it’s biggest effect on the Virginia diocese.
Its. Have I mentioned that I hate the iPad’s spell check? I have? Oh. Sorry.
Without knowing it, you actually scotched what was going to be a trivia question when you went on about New Jersey a couple weeks ago. So you’ve sorta been on a roll.
Sorry bout that. 😉
My guess will be percentage of the state’s total acerage that does not pay property taxes because of church or religious exemptions.
We already have an answer but I would think that that would put North and South Dakota back together like twins.
North and South Dakota are on our radar as potential places to relocate to. What’s kind of funny is that your suggestion about their similarity (one I made myself when talking to a couple people about it) is considered half-offensive. Like telling Canadians that they should just be done with it and join the US. Even using the word Dakota got me a couple tut-tuts on a message board, because some North Dakotans think ND should be “Dakota” while South Dakotans take major issue with that.
When I redid my Trumanverse map, changed Dakota from a combination of the two into a more unique parcel of land. I didn’t want any more lectures from irate North/South Dakotans.
The two peoples who hate each other more than any other two peoples in the world? As in you can’t believe that they say *THAT* about them? You can’t believe that they laugh at jokes about *THAT* about them?
People from Sweden and people from Denmark.
Couldn’t we just sell both to the Canadians and be done?
You’d sell the Canucks Mt. Rushmore!? What’s next, selling the Alamo to the Mexicans?
Why do you hate America so, Tod?