Monday, February 1, 2016

This Is The Atheist Capital Of America

By Quentin Fottrell, Jan 316, 2016 Market Watch

If you don’t believe in God, you might want to move to the Pacific Northwest.

Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Calif. and Seattle, Wash. are tied on a 2015 list of metropolitan areas with the most religiously unaffiliated residents (37%), according to the nonpartisan and nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas, a survey of 50,000 people. Seattle and San Francisco have more religiously unaffiliated people than the previous year (33%), while Portland has less religiously unaffiliated residents than 2014 (42%). Las Vegas and Denver were next on the list with 29%.

On the other end of the spectrum, Charlotte, N.C. was the metropolitan area with the fewest people without any religious affiliation (16% in 2015 versus 17% the previous year), followed by Dallas, Texas and Milwaukee, Wisc. (17% in 2015) and Houston (18%) and Kansas City (19%).


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