{"id":63182,"date":"2017-09-07T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63182"},"modified":"2017-09-07T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:41:45","slug":"atlantic-emma-green-the-non-religious-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63182","title":{"rendered":"(Atlantic) Emma Green&#8211;The Non-Religious States of America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few decades, religious disaffiliation has been rising relative to earlier points in the 20th century. In 2014, Pew Research Center\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/11\/03\/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'1',r'538821'\">found<\/a>\u00a0that the share of unaffiliated adults in the U.S. had grown from 16 to 23 percent over a seven-year period. While roughly 70 percent of American adults\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/05\/12\/americas-changing-religious-landscape\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'2',r'538821'\">identify as Christians<\/a>, the so-called nones\u2014people with no religion in particular\u2014have been growing as a share of the population.<\/p>\n<p>The new PRRI data shows that this is happening more noticeably in some places than others. Roughly 41 percent of Vermonters and 33 percent of those from New Hampshire aren\u2019t affiliated with any particular religion, carrying the banner of secularism for the Northeast. This was also true in the Pacific Northwest, where more than one-third of residents in Oregon and Washington didn\u2019t claim a specific faith.<\/p>\n<p>But there were some surprises in the geographic break-down, too, including states that don\u2019t fit regional stereotypes about secular, coastal elites or hippie-ish mountain terrain. Non-religious people compose the largest share of the populations of Hawaii and Alaska compared to other faith groups. In general, the non-religious states of America are concentrated west of the Mississippi River, according to PRRI, spanning Arizona to Nebraska to Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Non-religious Americans are often portrayed in stereotypical fashion. They\u2019re the white, yuppie city dwellers of Portland; the blue-haired atheists who attend Skeptic conferences; or the godless youth at progressive political rallies. While these images aren\u2019t necessarily wrong, they\u2019re incomplete. Non-religious Americans come from a range of income, education, and racial backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/09\/no-religion-states-prri\/538821\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few decades, religious disaffiliation has been rising relative to earlier points in the 20th century. In 2014, Pew Research Center\u00a0found\u00a0that the share of unaffiliated adults in the U.S. had grown from 16 to 23 percent over a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63182\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,133,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63183,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63182\/revisions\/63183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}