[lbo-talk] Gallup: Catholics, politics, the pope

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Apr 5 12:09:23 PDT 2005


Lots of surprises for me here. Mormans relatively low income. Disciples of Christ high status?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:46:11PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> John Lacny wrote:
>
> >I find this surprising, but there's an easy explanation I think. If you look
> >only at whites (since blacks are overwhelmingly Protestant), I'm sure
> >Catholic incomes would still skew significantly lower than Protestant
> >ones -- even if you don't include Latinos!
>
> This is old, but I suspect the rankings haven't changed all that
> much. Note that there are high-income/high-status Protestant
> religions, and low-income, low-status ones. Catholics are just above
> the middle.
>
> Doug
>
> ----
>
> income status
> Jewish 36,700 7
> Unitarian 34,800 1
> Agnostic 33,300 3
> Episcopalian 33,000 5
> Eastern Orthodox 31,500 6
> Congregationalist 30,400 4
> Presbyterian 29,000 8
> Disciples of Christ 28,800 2
> Buddhist 28,500 11
> Hindu 27,800 9
> Catholic 27,700 13
> NRMs 27,500 10
> None 27,300 12
> Churches of Christ 26,600 18
> Lutheran 25,900 14
> Christian Science 25,800 21
> Protestant 25,700 15
> Mormon 25,700 17
> Methodist 25,100 16
> Muslim 24,700 19
> 7th-Day Adventist 22,700 28
> Assemblies of God 22,200 20
> Evangelical 21,900 22
> Nazarene 21,600 25
> Jehovah's Witness 20,900 30
> Christian 20,700 24
> Baptist 20,600 26
> Pentacostal 19,400 27
> Brethren 18,500 23
> Holiness 13,700 29
>
> status is a composite of
> four measures: income,
> percent with college degree,
> percent full-time year-round workers,
> percent homeowners
> NRMs are New Religious Movements
> (Scientology, New Age, Ekankar, etc.)
>
> source Barry Kosmin & Seymour Lachman, One Nation
> Under God (Crown, 1993), based on the National
> Survey of Religious Identification, 1991
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