KY Atheists, Rejoice! We're in Second Place

No, 19 percent is not a majority, but it's more than Catholics or Mainline Protestants or anybody but the freakazoids, who don't have anything close to the majority, either.

We're stronger than we think.  Come out, Kentucky atheists!  We have nothing to lose but our minority status.

Steve Benen:

And the Public Religion Research Institute published an interesting report this week, highlighting the religious diversity by state. In quite a few states, especially in the Northeast, “unaffiliated” wasn’t a majority, but it was a plurality.

confrontingbabble-on:

It is time for the religiously unaffiliated to exert their significant influence…to stop religious institutions hijacking the country…

“The U.S. religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation that is fundamentally reshaping American politics and culture,” PRRI Director of Research Dan Cox told The Huffington Post.

Beyond the 23 states with the largest religiously unaffiliated populations, there are 15 states where the second-largest religious group is religiously unaffiliated. Some states have multiple religious affiliations that share the position of largest or second-largest group. That includes Wisconsin, where the largest religious groups are made up of white Catholics (22 percent), the unaffiliated (22 percent) and white mainline Protestants (22 percent).”

Patients in recovery mode:

Alaska: Unaffiliated (28%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (15%)
Arizona: Unaffiliated (25%), Second largest: Hispanic Catholic (16%)
California: Unaffiliated (27%), Second largest: Hispanic Catholic (20%)
Colorado: Unaffiliated (28%), Second largest: White mainline Protestant (17%)
Delaware: Unaffiliated (25%), Second largest: White mainline Protestant (20%)
Florida Unaffiliated (21%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (17%)
Hawaii: Unaffiliated (26%), Second largest: Other non-white Protestant (24%)
Idaho: Unaffiliated (27%), Second largest: Mormon (20%)
Illinois: Unaffiliated (22%), Second largest: White Catholic (19%)
Maine: Unaffiliated (28%), Second largest: White Catholic (25%)
Michigan: Unaffiliated (24%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (18%) and White Catholic (18%)
Montana: Unaffiliated (29%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (26%)
Nevada: Unaffiliated (27%), Second largest: Hispanic Catholic (15%)
New Hampshire: Unaffiliated (35%), Second largest: White Catholic (28%)
New Mexico: Unaffiliated (21%), Second largest: Hispanic Catholic (19%)
New York: Unaffiliated (22%) and White Catholic (22%), Second largest: Hispanic Catholic (9%)
Oregon: Unaffiliated (37%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (17%)
Vermont: Unaffiliated (32%), Second largest: White Catholic (17%) and White mainline Protestant (17%)
Washington: Unaffiliated (33%), Second largest: White evangelical Protestant (16%)

Condition is still critical:

Connecticut: White Catholic (31%), Second largest: Unaffiliated (22%)
Indiana: White evangelical Protestant (29%), Second largest: Unaffiliated (21%)
Kansas: White evangelical Protestant (26%), Second largest: Unaffiliated (24%)
Kentucky: White evangelical Protestant (39%), Second largest: Unaffiliated (19%)