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About 19.6 percent of Americans say they are \u201cnothing in particular,\u201d agnostic or atheist, up from about 8 percent in 1990. One-third of adults under 30 say the same. Pew offered people a list of more than a dozen possible affiliations, including \u201cProtestant,\u201d \u201cCatholic,\u201d \u201csomething else\u201d and \u201cnothing in particular.\u201d For the first time, Pew also reported that the number of Americans identifying themselves as Protestant dipped below half, at 48 percent. But the United States is still very traditional when it comes to religion, with 79 percent of Americans identifying with an established faith group. Experts have been tracking unaffiliated Americans since their numbers began rising, but new studies are adding details to the portrait.
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