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Originally Posted by Crawford
I'm kinda shocked that Metro Detroit is only 16% Catholic, more similar to Baptist/Methodist Southern metros than to Great Lakes metros.
Even many of the Middle Eastern immigrants are Catholic. Detroit has large Italian, Polish and German populations, like all the other Great Lakes cities.
The % black, by metro, isn't much higher than other nearby metros. Mainline Protestants aren't particularly common. Jewish population is moderately sized. Most ME immigrants to Detroit are Christian, not Muslim. So what gives?
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detroit does seem to be an unusual catholic outlier.
comparing it against chicago (detroit's closest parallel in the pew study) metro detroit has 2% points more unaffiliated, 4% points more evangelical, 3% points more mainline, 7% points more historically black, and 1% point more non-christian, which nearly makes up chicago's 18% points of more catholics (there are probably some rounding errors in there).