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Originally Posted by Docere
Detroit also had a lot of Canadian (mostly anglo/Protestant) immigration as well.
Still, I'm stunned to see it basically the same Catholic % as Seattle, where the whites are overwhelmingly of British, German and Scandinavian ancestry and does not have an especially big Hispanic population.
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Yeah, I'm wondering about what standard they're using for Metro Detroit. Are they just using Wayne County, which would account for the high % black Protestant?
Macomb County is just dominated by Poles, Italians, Germans and Catholic Middle Easterners. It's the same mix as working class white parts of Chicagoland. Oakland County is pretty Catholic too.
One possibility- Detroit has a fair number of working class white "redneck" areas that were traditionally settled by (Protestant) Appalachian whites. They came up to work the auto factories, and the towns are nicknamed with -tucky (Taylor is Taylortucky, Hazel Park is Hazeltucky, etc.)
But I'm still skeptical, as you see the same thing in other Midwest metros (in the case of Cincy and Indy, I bet you have even more of this demographic).