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survey results recently released by the Gallup Organization. More than three-quarters of residents in this metro reported that they are "very religious." Three of the top five most religious metros are in Alabama -- Montgomery, Birmingham, and Huntsville. Burlington, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado, tie for the title of the nation's least religious metro area. In these two metros, fewer than one in five residents claim to be "very religious." San Francisco and Boston also rank among the least religious metros in America, as only about one in four of their residents say they are "very religious."
The most religious metros as well as states are in the South, while the least religious are in in the Northeast and West Coast. As Gallup points out: "The most and least religious cities generally reflect the religiousness of the state in which they are located, although there are some interesting exceptions ... America is a remarkably religiously diverse nation, and much of this diversity is geographically based. Residents in some areas and cities -- namely, those in the South and in Utah -- are two or three times as likely to be very religious as those living in cities in the Northeast, the Northwest, and other Western locations."
Charlotta Mellander, I took a look at some of the key factors that might be correlated with religiosity, measured as the share of respondents who identified as very religious. As usual, I note that correlation only points to statistical associations between variables; For one, there is a close connection between religion and political views. Religion is closely associated with socio-economic class. Metros with lower incomes, lower levels of college grads, and working class economies are more religious.
analysis here on Cities which found religiosity at the state level to be positively associated with political conservatism, poverty and working class economic structures, and negatively associated with political liberalism, knowledge workers, and college grads.
Politicos on the left and right like to explain religious voters' proclivity purely in terms of values. But this misses a central point - that religion is inextricably bound up with the nation's underlying economic and geographic class divide."
Gallup Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He's also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University.
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