{"id":180,"date":"2009-01-29T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/religion-and-politics-by-state.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:14:30","slug":"religion-and-politics-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/religion-and-politics-by-state.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Politics by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/114022\/State-States-Importance-Religion.aspx\">Gallup has a new map up<\/a>, rating each state by religiosity.&nbsp; Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map reinforces some of the usual stereotypes about the religiosity of the Deep South and the lack of religiosity in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>However, I think the most important parallel is the religiosity map with the electoral map.&nbsp; Take a gander:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"religion by state.png\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/religion%20by%20state.png\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"247\" width=\"432\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2008-election-map.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/198\/import\/2008-election-map.png\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"297\" width=\"480\" \/><\/span>Religion and politics, still bedfellows.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/2009\/01\/religion_by_region_1.html\">Mark Silk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup has a new map up, rating each state by religiosity.&nbsp; Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map reinforces some of the usual stereotypes about the religiosity of the Deep South and the lack of religiosity in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest. However, I think the most important&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religion and Politics by State - The New Christians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/religion-and-politics-by-state.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religion and Politics by State - The New Christians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gallup has a new map up, rating each state by religiosity.&nbsp; Respondents answered whether religion is an important part of their lives, and the map reinforces some of the usual stereotypes about the religiosity of the Deep South and the lack of religiosity in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest. 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