{"id":1006,"date":"2012-08-31T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2012-08-31T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:40:40","slug":"the-catholic-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Religion-in-the-US-Catholic-Rates-of-Adherence-County-Map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Religion-in-the-US-Catholic-Rates-of-Adherence-County-Map.png\" alt=\"Religion in the US - Catholic Rates of Adherence County Map\" title=\"Religion in the US - Catholic Rates of Adherence County Map\" width=\"1003\" height=\"714\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Religion-in-the-US-Catholic-Rates-of-Adherence-County-Map.png 1003w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Religion-in-the-US-Catholic-Rates-of-Adherence-County-Map-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Religion-in-the-US-Catholic-Rates-of-Adherence-County-Map-421x300.png 421w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Membership in the Catholic church in the US has increased in recent years primarily due to immigration from Latin America. States with large Irish- and Italian-American populations also have significant numbers of Catholics. The map above shows membership per 1000 people for all counties in the US. New Mexico, California and Texas have the highest rates of adherents.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The data were downloaded from the Association of Religion Data Archives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearda.com\">www.TheARDA.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membership in the Catholic church in the US has increased in recent years primarily due to immigration from Latin America. States with large Irish- and Italian-American populations also have significant numbers of Catholics. The map above shows membership per 1000 people for all counties in the US. New Mexico, California and Texas have the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Catholic States of America' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/the-catholic-states-of-america\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,14],"tags":[352,339,350,338,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}