Raw Data: Religion in America

[trotsky]

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/05/raw-data-religion-in-america/

[MineralMan]

1. Your first chart does show a definite decline, doesn't it.

Perhaps Mike Pence is looking at some other charts. That's my guess.

[democratisphere]

2. Pence is looking at the alternative facts charts.

[MineralMan]

3. Well, that explains it, then.

[Major Nikon]

4. What we are seeing today is this decline is causing the extremists to become more vocal

I have no idea what the trends are for the last chart, but I suspect the last item is rising and the 3rd to last is in decline.

[trotsky]

5. Regarding the third chart, the only one I know for sure is that "atheist" used to be well below 50%.

So yep, you are correct about the last item rising.

[Cartoonist]

6. Big drop at 2001

What caused that?
W's election?
9/11?
The Human Genome Project?

[Mariana]

7. If I had to guess, I'd say it was 9/11.

Check this out:

Similar things were being said in many churches across the country. Jumping right in the way they did, to use that event to promote their campaign of hate, may have turned off a lot of people.