Fascinating.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][h3]Maps show which religious group is where in USA[/h3]American Ethnic Geography uses US census Glenmary Research Center data to draw shaded maps of the US that show which religion's adherents live where. [a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html"]Link[/a]
[img style="width: 491px; height: 352px;" src="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/christian.gif"]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/adherents.gif"]Religious Adherents[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/church_bodies.gif"]Church Bodies[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/catholic.gif"]Catholic[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/baptist.gif"]Baptist[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/methodist.gif"]Methodist[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/lutheran.gif"]Lutheran[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/luth_groups.gif"]Lutheran Groups[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/elca.gif"]ELCA[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/lcms.gif"]LCMS[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/mormon.gif"]WELS
Jewish
Pentecostal
Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)[/a][/p] [/p] [a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/christian.gif"]Christian[/a]
[a href="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/quaker.gif"]Presbyterian
Episcopal
United Church of Christ
Muslim
Eastern Orthodox
Church of the Nazarene
Reformed
Mennonite
Amish
Unitarian
Congregational
Friends (Quaker)[/a][/p]
[img height=593 src="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/elca.gif" width=817]
Not suprised at all about this. Minnesota is split into 5 sections when it comes to ELCA. One church in saint paul I believe has like 15,000 members.
[img height=593 src="vny!://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/mormon.gif" width=817]
Did you know the Mormon religion is the fastest growing religion in the rural areas. Scary stuff.