Wow, that wall in the middle of the country! Seems like we need a passage way through it.

Somehow I find it hard to believe there are more religious ‘adherents’ per capita on Long Island than in Georgia ...

I've seen that magical "23%" show up a couple of places. Recently, the number of freshman college students listing "unaffiliated" as their religion on entrance forms. It was about 22% two years ago.

Texas is obviously high. There's usually a church about every block in the city.

Interesting!

You can almost make out the boundaries of Utah in the red.

Really cool map. I am hopeful it is accurate.

The map's legend indicates anything blue has less than 50% religious adherence per capita 2010. Seems a bit optimistic.

Still I see, Gawd is still blessing Texas with his almightyness. Great. Thanks Gawd.

I went to the ARDA site to try to find the definition of "adherent" as I find the numbers seem lower than the overall religiosity within the United States. The site isn't very clear, but I get the sense that adherents is an extension of church membership as reported by the churches themselves. So are "adherents" the more active church goers and their families?

When I look at the Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study (see link below), the overall religiosity of the US is about 70% with unaffiliated running around 23%.

My question still remains - what exactly is being measured by the ARDA data set?

Really cool map. I am hopeful it is accurate.

The map's legend indicates anything blue has less than 50% religious adherence per capita 2010. Seems a bit optimistic.

Still I see, Gawd is still blessing Texas with his almightyness. Great. Thanks Gawd.

Looks like the Midwest is at a higher elevation than us Crackers down here in the “Bible Belt”.

What’s up with that?

I’m in the shallow ocean. I’ll take it.

Thanks.

I wonder how much effort went into researching the cutsy-pie names on the map areas.
I live in the 'Yavapai Trench'. Yavapai is the name of a local native American tribe and is the name of our county so the map label isn't inappropriate.
Looking for that level of detail everywhere across the country seems like an awful lot of work. I guess I appreciate it vividmaps -- whoever did it.

Update: Patheos calls the source 'Egoshin'. I'll have to see who that is.