{"id":1344,"date":"2009-01-29T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/religion-and-politics-by-state\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:06:12","slug":"religion-and-politics-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/29\/religion-and-politics-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Politics by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/114022\/State-States-Importance-Religion.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gallup has a new map up<\/a>, rating each state by religiosity.\u00a0 Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map reinforces some of the usual stereotypes about the religiosity of the Deep South and the lack of religiosity in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>However, I think the most important parallel is the religiosity map with the electoral map.\u00a0 Take a gander:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span><br><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span>Religion and politics, still bedfellows.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/2009\/01\/religion_by_region_1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Silk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup has a new map up, rating each state by religiosity.\u00a0 Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map reinforces some of the usual stereotypes about the religiosity of the Deep South and the lack of religiosity in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest. However, I think the most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religion and Politics by State<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gallup has a new map up, rating each state by religiosity.&nbsp; Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/29\/religion-and-politics-by-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religion and Politics by State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gallup has a new map up, rating each state by religiosity.&nbsp; 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