{"id":43448,"date":"2015-03-12T06:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=43448"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:11:02","slug":"whats-the-most-catholic-state-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2015\/03\/whats-the-most-catholic-state-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s “the most Catholic” state in the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Rhode Island is still the most Catholic state in the U.S., a new study has found.<\/p>\n

A total of 44% of Rhode Islanders identified as Roman Catholic in a\u00a0survey of nearly 53,000 Americans<\/a>\u00a0conducted last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, a five-year-old nonprofit organization based in Washington.<\/p>\n

The results are similar to a 2008 Trinity College survey that\u00a0showed 46% of Rhode Islanders identified as Catholic<\/a>, down from 62% in 1990. That study also showed\u00a0Rhode Island with the most heavily Catholic population in the nation.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island is no regional outlier, though. The new poll put Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York in a three-way tie\u00a0as the second most Catholic state, with 38% of their residents identifying that way. Nationwide, 22% of Americans identified as Catholic in the survey.<\/p>\n

The second-biggest religious tradition in Rhode Island, however, is no religion at all: 21% of Rhode Islanders surveyed described themselves as religiously unaffiliated. The No. 3 religious tradition in Rhode Island was white mainline Protestant, at 15%.<\/p>\n

The survey found unaffiliated residents now represent one of the top three religious groups in all but five states, reinforcing a widely noted trend in recent decades of fewer Americans identifying with organized religion.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island is one of only four states where at least four in 10 residents identify with the same religious tradition. The others are Utah, which is 56% Mormon; Tennessee, which is 43% white evangelical Protestant; and West Virginia, which is 40% white evangelical Protestant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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