Marginal Revolution: Religious maps

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Religious maps

Here are the Lutherans:

Here are the details and maps of many other religions.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 22, 2006 at 06:06 AM in Data Source | Permalink

Comments

As a WELS Lutheran, we always looked on the ELCA as the largest but "liberal" Lutheran synod, with homosexuals and women preachers, hardly Christians at all. So I had the impression they lived out East in New England. How weird it is to look at the map and see they're basically all in North Dakota. We had up our inferiority complex and theological barricades against a bunch of free-living liberal North Dakota Germans! The smaller the difference, the deeper the divisions, I guess.

Posted by: Noumenon at Apr 22, 2006 8:26:39 AM

What about the atheists? That would be helpful - it'd help us dodge God's thunderbolts.

Posted by: dearieme at Apr 22, 2006 10:01:49 AM

This site has nothing to do with Lutherans, but its worth a chuckle:

http://www.geocities.com/masongazebo

Posted by: albie ray at Apr 22, 2006 11:57:57 AM

I get a "forbidden access" error when clicking the link.

Posted by: asg at Apr 22, 2006 12:50:08 PM

The map tracks moderately well with Percent German (pdf).

Posted by: Anthony at Apr 22, 2006 2:05:10 PM

Yes, the Texas dot is New Braunfels.

Posted by: bob mcmanus at Apr 22, 2006 2:30:27 PM

Great link! Very interesting to compare the distribution of the various religious groups. Most of them were expected, but I was surprised by the distribution of the Petnecostals.

If you like maps like this, you might also like this post. It has links to many different kinds of maps visually representing many kinds of information.

Posted by: Brian at Apr 22, 2006 3:54:38 PM

"'Reconquista'-style" thinking:

Omigod! The Lutherans are taking over the upper Midwest! They have almost complete control of Minnesota and North Dakota! Nothing gets done without their say-so! Can you imagine the horror of being a Methodist in such a state, given the hegemony of the Lutheran hordes?!?

Posted by: huh at Apr 22, 2006 4:51:31 PM

The map tracks moderately well with percent Norwegian (pdf) too...

Posted by: Knud Berthelsen at Apr 22, 2006 5:28:51 PM

Where are the evangelicals?

Posted by: Rich at Apr 22, 2006 8:31:41 PM

That's just hard to get accurate. I know for a fact that you can't turn around without hitting a Pentecostal in Louisiana, but they are a very divided group with many, many splinter groups and independents.

There are large groups of Pentecostals that do not subscribe to the trinity doctrine, and are usually left out of "official" counts as the Assemblies of God, and other major Pentecostal sects typically regard them as heretics. But Louisiana is just thick with these types of Pentecostals.

Posted by: Ray at Apr 23, 2006 1:07:12 AM

This representation (percentage of a county) fails when the population thins out. For example, a county in northern Alaska looks like a stronghold of Quakerism, but it's more likely that there is one or two Quaker families in a county with only a couple of dozen families. You can say the same thing about Kansas. And yet look at south-eastern Pennsylvania, where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Quaker. No sign of them, because there are so many other people.

Posted by: Russell Nelson at Apr 23, 2006 12:38:00 PM

Not just New Braunfels, it's the Hill Country. So is there a map cross-correlating good food with religion and/or ancestry. (I recall a BBQ series of posts, the result of which I don't recall or never saw.)

Posted by: agm at Apr 24, 2006 3:45:08 AM

The numbers for the Baptists look hard to believe -- they almost perfectly
match state lines in the Old South. Weird.

Posted by: Jason Kuznicki at Apr 24, 2006 11:04:02 AM

Now you know what North Dakota and Namibia have in common.

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