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Originally Posted by Docere
New England has become very nonreligious as well.
In Massachusetts for example, the number with no religion (32%) is similar to Catholics (34%). Also seems like a lot of descendants of New England Yankees don't identify with a religion at all - for instance only 3% are Congregationalists, the traditional Yankee religion.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...massachusetts/ |
We're all Cathnostic or lower-case 'c' cultural catholics. All of the immigrant and refuge groups to land in and stick around New England outside of the Puritans were Catholic: Irish, Italians, French Canadians/Arcadians, Portuguese, Cape Verdeans, Polish, Ukrainians, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Brazilians ... no crazy Revivalist history after the Puritans stopped burning witches. Catholics tend to naturally get apathetic if there aren't any holy rollin' Evangelical Protestants around inspiring them to behave similarly. This is why most of the New England Catholics who still actively go to mass vote blue, while places like Louisiana can produce Chief Justice Barrett.