Great Lakes Cities

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Docere

A good number are, but I'm pretty sure a majority are Protestant. White Catholics only narrowly outnumber White Protestants 38%-33% in the Chicago metro area. German ancestry is the most common in the region, and they must be the largest among White Protestants.

i wasn't saying that all german ancestry chicagolanders are catholic (there are obviously shit-tons of lutherans too), i was only going against your earlier implicaiton that nearly all white catholics in chicagoland are of either irish, italian, or polish heritage.

yes, those three make up the lion's share, no doubt, but german catholics are a signinficant block too.

[Docere]

Right. That's why it's a proxy measure. The more Irish, Poles and Italians the more white Catholic. There isn't a strong correlation with German ancestry.