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I have been staring at this for probably 20 minutes. I find it thoroughly fascinating and I am not quite sure why -- I think because this is probably the single best variable to tell you about the culture of a region. There are a couple more similar maps, including one of Europe, at Floating Sheep.
Some observations/questions:
- How do you explain the thin red streak of methodists across the nation's belly?
- Most diverse states: California, Washington, and Michigan?!
- The Southeast looks dreadfully boring, though as I have learned, there are many flavors of baptists.
- Interesting to see a few LDS communities in Mexico.
- Why are the big cities in Texas more methodist? And what's with the cluster of lutherans in, what is that, N. San Antonio?
- Catholics don't seem to have much of a pattern except that they are disproportionately found along the border.
