I recently discovered a very interesting databank on religion in the United States and decided to create some maps showing distribution of different religions and denominations throughout the country.
Some of them are not surprising at all, for instance you would expect Mormons to live mostly in Utah and Evangelicals to live in the South. But some are more interesting, like high percentage of Catholics in the Dakotas (I have always thought the plains are as protestants as they come) and low percentage of Catholics in souther Michigan/Northern Indiana and Ohio where a lot of Polish and German immigrants settled 150 years ago.
I also took the liberty to include Amishes in those maps, as I find this minority utterly fascinating.
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