Where The Wild Things Catholics Are

Since we’ve been looking at maps of the U.S. with different data on them, let’s look at where Catholics live.

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Incidentally, don’t forget that population density doesn’t tell you overall population. For example, my home state of Texas is less Catholic-dense than neighboring states Louisiana and New Mexico, but its population is so much larger that it has more total Catholics. Rhode Island, by contrast, is the most Catholic-dense state in the nation, but its population is so tiny that most states have more Catholics than it does.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

10 thoughts on “Where The Wild Things Catholics Are”

  2. Also, Catholics tend to be concentrated in urban areas. St. Louis, MO, for example, is over 50% Catholic (and pretty active, by comparison) but the rest of the Show-Me state is under 5% Catholic; yet Missouri shows up as being more than Catholic than is typical of states in the USA. Interesting stuff.

  3. It’s clear from this map that the catholic-heavy states are the most “blue.” This certainly sheds some doubt on the claim that the Catholic vote was decisive in the election.

  4. It’s clear from this map that the catholic-heavy states are the most “blue.” This certainly sheds some doubt on the claim that the Catholic vote was decisive in the election.
    Yep. At the very least it indicates that Catholics are doing a very poor job of evangelizing their non-Catholic neighbors.

  5. It could be because of the certain RUMOR about Kerry generous immogration policy. Thus, most of Mexican-American vote for Kerry.

  7. Beng,
    Neither Bush or Kerry supported a get-tough policy with illegal immigrants. I don’t think any Mexican illegal goes to bed thinking that getting him sent back to Mexico is high on Bush’s list. (In fact, Bush supported at least a partial amnesty.)
    Kerry won the Hispanic vote because Hispanics tend to vote their income level (low).

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