Feb. 28th, 2007 06:49 pm
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textualdevianceSo, I'm working on infographics for my religion article, and I'm using data from the 2004 General Social Survey.
There's a very cool bit of analysis of this data here.
A few fascinating things to point out:
-Almost 55 percent of blacks described their religion as fundamentalist, compared to only 25 percent of whites.*
-100 percent of Catholics described their religion as moderate.
-22 percent of people describing themselves as liberal also describe their religion as fundamentalist.
-74 percent of fundies have a high school education or less.
-Only 5 percent of fundies have a graduate degree or higher, and 44 percent of people with a graduate degree describe their religion as liberal.
*This is probably explained in part by population distribution. About 55 percent of American blacks live in the south, where fundamentalist religion is dominant.
There's a very cool bit of analysis of this data here.
A few fascinating things to point out:
-Almost 55 percent of blacks described their religion as fundamentalist, compared to only 25 percent of whites.*
-100 percent of Catholics described their religion as moderate.
-22 percent of people describing themselves as liberal also describe their religion as fundamentalist.
-74 percent of fundies have a high school education or less.
-Only 5 percent of fundies have a graduate degree or higher, and 44 percent of people with a graduate degree describe their religion as liberal.
*This is probably explained in part by population distribution. About 55 percent of American blacks live in the south, where fundamentalist religion is dominant.
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Individual politicians may go off of other data, but when it comes to specific agency things like how much aid a given state gets, they go by the hard numbers there.