What are the main protestant and Catholic areas in the USA?
Is it correct that Los Angeles and Boston are Catholic areas due to Mexican/Irish emigration??
So where are located he Protestant areas?
The more protestant areas I believe are called the bibble belt…
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October 21 2009 10:44 am | Protestant
Eleutherios on 21 Oct 2009 at 4:25 pm #
The more protestant areas I believe are called the bibble belt…
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Katmandu on 21 Oct 2009 at 5:06 pm #
the southeastern states and the midwest
there are catholic communities among the italians, irish, vietnamese, some french, and mexican-americans
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Sunday Lunch on 21 Oct 2009 at 5:30 pm #
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imacatholic2 on 21 Oct 2009 at 6:11 pm #
The top 10 U.S. dioceses by number of Catholics are:
1. Los Angeles 4,174,304
2. New York 2,521,087
3. Chicago 2,442,000
4. Boston 2,077,487
5. Brooklyn 1,826,592
6. Philadelphia (Archdiocese)1,486,058
7. Detroit 1,481,866
8. Rockville Centre 1,428,563
9. Newark 1,319,558
10. Orange in California 1,170,480
The top 10 U.S. diocesesby percentage of Catholics are:
1. Brownsville 85.00%
2. El Paso 80.82%
3. Laredo 74.54%
4. Corpus Christi 70.00%
5. Providence 63.50%
6. Houma-Thibodaux 63.41%
7. Lafayette 56.74%
8. Boston 52.33%
9. Rockville Centre 51.87%
10. Worcester 48.42%
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/scus1.html
All non-Native American populations can be traced back to immigration.
With love in Christ.
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