Huffington Post:
What does Mississippi have to say to Vermont? Not much when it comes to the religiosity of their citizens.
Every year since 2008 Gallup has conducted interviews and polls in order to gauge the religious appetites of Americans according to state. The findings from 2013 fall in line with previous years, with Mississippi representing the Godly south coming in as the most religious state, and Vermont representing the heathen Northeast coming in last.
For now, though, Gallup’s results show the states largely divided north-south on religiosity. Here are the 10 most and least religious states in 2013.
Based on more than 174,000 interviews, the Gallup poll measures religiosity by how important respondents said religion was in their lives and how frequently they attended religious services. “Very religious” was characterized by those who went to religious services every week, or thereabouts, and said religion was very important to them.
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