“The Pew survey sorts people into major groupings–Christians; other religions, including Jewish and Muslim; and ‘unaffiliated,’ which includes atheist, agnostic and ‘nothing in particular.’  Roll your cursor over the map to see how faiths and traditions break down by state.”

Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

This is a particularly useful interactive map with a lot of teaching applications.  It is a nice visual aid to process the religious data in the United States.  

Questions to Ponder: What patterns do you notice?  Are there religious regions that could be drawn based on this data?   What geographic factors have created the differences in the religious geographies of the United States?

Tags: culture, religion, Christianity, USA. regions, diffusion, mapping.