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Interestingly Alaska comes out as fairly irreligious according to studies. Also it seems at least possible some of its people are of indigenous-people religions rather than Christianity. New Hampshire has very low church-attendance and a comparatively high, though still low, percent of Unitarians. Oregon and Washington have low church-attendance plus, I think, they have a fair amount of non-Christian religions.
If we do counties rather than states Rockland County, New York is apparently 31.4% Jewish. Oahu in Hawaii is listed as low in "religious adherents." Hawaii in general might be a good example, if we mean least Christian rather than irreligious, as a good deal of its population is Buddhist or other "Eastern religion."
Just because people identify with a religion, doesn't mean they're religious. I know tons of people who identify as Catholics, and they're very proud of it, but they're not religious. A lot of countries in Europe have a large percentage of the population identifying as Catholic (70% of Spaniards, for example) but only a small percentage of the population is actually practicing. I'm going to assume that Boston & New York fall into this category.
And that wasn't to pick on Catholics. It's just I've that noticed when Protestants stop believing, they also stop identifying as Protestant, or whatever denomination they belong to. For Catholics & Jews, identifying with a religion seems a lot more important.
I don't know, though. Although I'd say that as a percentage, NYC is not the most Christian place, it's a nice little piece of trivia that Manhattan has more churches than bars, and some of those churches are packed on Sunday mornings. On the other hand, you'll also see old churches in the city that have been deconsecrated and turned into other uses (restaurants, for example).
Didn't anyone ever tell you "don't shoot the messenger"?
You don't have to be anti-religious to notice the obvious trend of religion having greater significance in less educated communities. It is what it is.
Ahhh yes. The gross over-generalization continues.
I actually visited the Dutch Bible belt a in 2007 specifically to check out the Dutch Bible belt. I skipped Amstersdam, other than a quick train tride from the airport. Other than a conspicuous presence of Christian bookstores, some (or perhaps even many) women in long-ish skirts, and a few men (mostly farmers) in wooden clogs (really), it actually seemed much like the rest of Europe. People lived in regular homes, shopped at a regular grocery store, and lived quite ordinary lives.
And keep in mind, much of Europe "shuts down on Sunday."
Sometimes, cultural traditions die slower than religious ones...
I was in New York and New Jersey and I saw churches everywhere and even many road signs was Christian churches. I met lots of people going to churches and they were crowded. Many people had cross on their cars and as necklace so it seemed pretty Christian
The surrounding suburbs of Dallas, TX(Plano,Frisco,etc). Nothing but a bunch of heathens, marxist worshipping, Obama electing, pagans! Never in my life have I seen such disrespect for the precious baby Jesus! Good Lawd
Didn't anyone ever tell you "don't shoot the messenger"?
You don't have to be anti-religious to notice the obvious trend of religion having greater significance in less educated communities. It is what it is.
Depends on what you mean by "religion" and "educated."
Places with a high percentage of scientists/science-degrees tend to have low levels of self-described Fundamentalism.
Mormons, Quakers, Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox Jews, and Hindus tend to come out fairly educated in the US. "White, not Hispanic" Catholics come out about average as I recall. Certain suburban counties have high rates of college-education and religiosity. Likewise I think the Pacific Northwest has some fairly poor, but still irreligious, communities.
So I might agree that in communities with little science-education Fundamentalist Religion is more common. Fundamentalism might be more common in less-educated communities in general as it provides structure and charity that might make life feel less insecure or confusing.
We moved from Norway to New Jersey and mostly everything including malls are closed on Sundays here
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