Why is the South so Protestant

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Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States, with 65% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2019,[1] down from 75% in 2015.[2][3] This is down from 85% in 1990, lower than 81.6% in 2001,[4] and lower than 78% in 2012.[5] About 62% of those polled claim to be members of a church congregation.[6] The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, with nearly 240 million Christians, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations. The modern official motto of the United States of America, as established in a 1956 law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is “In God We Trust”.[7][8][9] The phrase first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864.[8]

All Protestant denominations accounted for 48.5%, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 22.7%, was the largest individual denomination.[10] The nation’s second-largest church and the single largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention.[11] The United Methodist Church is the third largest church and the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.[12] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is the fourth-largest church in the United States and the largest church originating in the U.S.[13][14] The Church of God in Christ is the fifth-largest denomination, the largest Pentecostal church, and the largest traditionally African-American denomination in the nation.[11] Among Eastern Christian denominations, there are several Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, with just below 1 million adherents in the US, or 0.4% of the total population.[15]

Christianity was introduced to the Americas as it was first colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Going forward from its foundation, the United States has been called a Protestant nation by a variety of sources,[16][17][18][19] although Protestants are no longer the majority in the United States.[20] Immigration further increased Christian numbers. Today most Christian churches in the United States are either Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, or Catholic.[21]…
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