There’s your problem in a nutshell, America.
What the fuck
Idaho….? Utah? Neutral, really?
Utah has been getting a ton of Californians moving in. Also, Mormons seem to believe the whole separation of church and school thing.
I love maps that are basically just population density maps
Is it though? Florida is quite dense in US terms and states like Idaho and Montana are about as far from dense as you can get.
Horrifying
That is not surprising.
I thought that the deeply religious states were more of a minority. Yikes.
I grew up in one of those states and it’s part of why I’m a certified America Hater today. I genuinely don’t think people who haven’t been exposed to it, even within the country, but especially outside of it, really have a grasp on how prominent and powerful religion is in the US. Hell, I didn’t fully understand it myself until I lived outside of the country for a time and saw what normal is like. This country is a madhouse.
Relative to the US average. But the US is a very deeply religious nation compared to other developed nations.
Maine is the least religious state but for some reason is gray on the chart. I’m curious about how the question was asked in the study
To learn anything about American politics you need a county level map.
With size adjusted to account for population! It becomes useless as a map, but significantly more illustrative of the political realities.
The US 2020 Presidential Election Cartogram:
They are. Those areas are thinly populated.
Just over half of U.S. adults (52%) say they favor allowing public school teachers to lead their classes in prayers that refer to Jesus
Nationwide, a slightly larger share of Americans say they favor allowing teacher-led prayers referencing God (57%)
It’s right there in OP.
Unfortunately it’s land that votes, not people.
I thought it was corporations…
Ohio and Florida are thinly populated? Texas has a large area but also population.
Ohio is mostly corn and “Hell is real” billboards.
Yeah but it also has the 7th highest population in the country and a higher population density than California, somehow.
California is also big.
You are forgetting about Grandpa’s Cheese Barn to. Also as another user mentioned it’s a highly populated state
Interesting, places that many cultures and beliefs are coming led heavily oppose it, while states that are majority WASPs are for it.
Interesting that simply being around people of other beliefs can change your way of thinking.
A map about people who paid attention in history and government class vs those who didn’t.
Exactly. Grew up Christian and it convinced me to be agnostic. Even then, I still would never add religious beliefs to the teaching of children early in life, when they clearly lack intelligent decision making skills.
Yeah, are you ever convinced as an agnostic? I thought, that was the point.
i’d say it’s totally logical to be 100% convinced that you can’t be convinced of god’s existence or non-existence
I think teaching about religion is fine and actually good for interacting with people outside your culture. Teaching of a specific religion is where you run into trouble.
I had a unit early on in school and another one in my early teens where we basically learned about the origins of a bunch of different religions and cultures surrounding them. Learned a lot about people that otherwise would seem unapproachable to me.
I didn’t need those classes to know forcing religion onto others is the exact opposite of what Jesus wanted
The United States had a good run. I hope I see the entire West Coast secede in my lifetime.
Repeal the 1st. It’s clear you can’t have religious freedom without it just allowing a theocracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
We shouldn’t ban religion, though–just institution.
Just make them pay taxes every time they get even close to talking about electoral politics.
Why just Christian prayers? Why not prayer in general?
Use a generic “what do you think about prayer in public schools?” survey, and then where states vote YES create campaigns to make satanic and Muslim prayer programs at schools in the states that were all for prayer lol
Because most of these places have <1% non Christians in their communities. Anything else is scary
Funny part is … it has absolutely no indication of how religious or moral any of these regions are
I’m saving this for when the civil war is about to break out and I need a rough estimate of where the front lines will be.
If there’s a civil war, Michigan will quickly be appropriated to Canada.
The only states id maybe be interested in as a Canadian is California, New York and Washington (also Maine because why do they even extend so far into Québec?).
For real though, with the Democrats response to Trump, I don’t really want them anywhere near Canadian politics. They’d make our Liberals look socialist
Keep it, not interested.
Also factor
Military, national & state guard, and LE bases project a zone of control
100 miles from any border is a zone of control
How was the research conducted? Their website talks about the sample size, but I didn’t see how respondents were selected. They claim it’s representative of the national population, but if they’re cold-calling random people to ask the questions, I can almost guarantee there are going to be more older people responding because younger people tend not to answer unknown phone calls.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-methodology/
A total of 205,100 sampled addresses were mailed survey invitations. Respondents were given a choice to complete the survey online, by mail, or by calling a toll-free number and completing the survey over the phone with an interviewer. Of the 36,908 U.S. adults who completed the survey, 25,250 did so online, 10,733 did so by mail, and 925 did so by phone.
It goes on to say the results were then weighted to get a representative demographic sample, e.g. if more older people answered, younger responders would count for more.
I can tell you right now that there is a vast majority of people that are too poor or too scared to participate for any of this to be accurate.
