Wow, that wall in the middle of the country! Seems like we need a passage way through it.

Somehow I find it hard to believe there are more religious ‘adherents’ per capita on Long Island than in Georgia ...

I've seen that magical "23%" show up a couple of places. Recently, the number of freshman college students listing "unaffiliated" as their religion on entrance forms. It was about 22% two years ago.

Texas is obviously high. There's usually a church about every block in the city.

Interesting!

You can almost make out the boundaries of Utah in the red.

Really cool map. I am hopeful it is accurate.

The map's legend indicates anything blue has less than 50% religious adherence per capita 2010. Seems a bit optimistic.

Still I see, Gawd is still blessing Texas with his almightyness. Great. Thanks Gawd.

I went to the ARDA site to try to find the definition of "adherent" as I find the numbers seem lower than the overall religiosity within the United States. The site isn't very clear, but I get the sense that adherents is an extension of church membership as reported by the churches themselves. So are "adherents" the more active church goers and their families?

When I look at the Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study (see link below), the overall religiosity of the US is about 70% with unaffiliated running around 23%.

My question still remains - what exactly is being measured by the ARDA data set?

Really cool map. I am hopeful it is accurate.

The map's legend indicates anything blue has less than 50% religious adherence per capita 2010. Seems a bit optimistic.

Still I see, Gawd is still blessing Texas with his almightyness. Great. Thanks Gawd.

Looks like the Midwest is at a higher elevation than us Crackers down here in the “Bible Belt”.

What’s up with that?

I’m in the shallow ocean. I’ll take it.