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Distribution of Christians
in the United States.
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Shaded areas represent
locations where 50% of church membership is concentrated in Roman Catholicism
or one Protestant denomination.
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From this map, we can
identify several distinct geographical relationships:
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-Baptists in the Southeast
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-Lutherans in the Upper Midwest
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-Mormons in Utah and surrounding states
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-Roman Catholics in the Northeast and Southwest.
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What factors explain these
patterns?
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Considering what we know
about current immigration trends – in what ways can we predict changes in
this map in the future?
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