Looking at the Pew research on religion in America today was very thought provoking. Many stereotypes that are mainstream where we live to believe held true, such as some of the southern states being very evangelical, New York and New Jersey being very Jewish, and Utah being very Mormon. However, a little bit of everyone lives everywhere. It is safe to say that our nation is a mainly Christian nation, but neither mainstream Protestants, Evangelicals, nor Catholics have a majority. An example of minorities living everywhere is Tennessee. It is more Protestant and Evangelical than the nation's average, and that’s mostly how people think of it. However, even though percentage wise they may make up less than 1%, there are Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others. This is true throughout the nation, no matter what any state's main religions are. My other main interest from this source was the racial makeup of the different religions, which is similar to the religious minorities in each state. For each religion, there is a percentage of each race, no matter how few (the exception of which being that there are no Asians in historically Black churches). The conclusion I got from this great source was that, no matter how few there may be, every state of our union has representatives from every faith, and every faith in our union has representatives from every race and minority.
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