(the) (ju)Lia Code(x) ([info]portable_dream) wrote in [info]chalice_circle,
@ 2006-04-17 15:13:00
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http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

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[info]scotmoore
2006-04-17 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Rock on! I'm in a purple area!

Sorry for the random comment.

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[info]bak2oz
2006-04-17 10:45 pm UTC (link)
WOW! That is really interesting. I'm "peachy." Interestingly enough, the percentage in south Florida doesn't show up, even though it is quite large.

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[info]chachos
2006-04-17 11:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm in a peachy are too (I'm just north of San Francisco)!! But as to south Florida not showing up, it's probably because it's a small percentage of people compared to the billion of people who live there. I use to attend a fairly large congregation in Miami.

PS. Hi Julia it's Summer, Sierra's sister:)

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[info]portable_dream
2006-04-18 01:11 am UTC (link)
Hey!!!

I was reading "north of San Francisco" and was like.....hey....wonder if I know them.

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[info]evilsmystery
2006-04-18 07:58 am UTC (link)
wait...didn't we meet in some random room at the back of the mall after the hurricane?

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[info]chachos
2006-04-18 04:23 pm UTC (link)
yeah, but then remember we started going to first church, the one from our christmas pictures.

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[info]bak2oz
2006-04-18 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Did you attend the UU in South Miami?

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[info]chachos
2006-04-18 04:32 pm UTC (link)
maybe at the time it was called first church but the names could have changed.

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[info]bak2oz
2006-04-18 04:43 pm UTC (link)
yeah, I think it is called first church. I went there when I lived in MIami

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[info]fjorab_teke
2006-04-17 10:48 pm UTC (link)
That little peach color in the northeast tip of TN...that's my clan. :-) A lot of us have dispersed to various places (UU churches an hour or so away in nearby "purple areas", other liberal but not-UU Christian-type congregations, etc.) due to a certain era a few years ago of weird "politics" though. None of us who left have truly felt at-home at our old "home" since. But hopefully the congregation is healing, if I'm understanding people correctly. :-)

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[info]autosparta
2006-04-17 11:30 pm UTC (link)
I wonder if one could be made for canada, where did get this?
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[info]portable_dream
2006-04-18 01:12 am UTC (link)
The link it's from is below the map.

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[info]rockcat
2006-04-17 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Yay I'm in a purple area. It still amazes me everytime I meet a Unitarian outside of church.

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[info]sparkofcreation
2006-04-17 11:56 pm UTC (link)
I'm amused because I'm in a pink county in New Mexico (the small one right in the middle), but a light purply area is just north of me ... and knowing that there's only one small congregation in that county, I have to assume it's because of lack of population, rather than a high number of UUs!

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[info]nerdpony
2006-04-18 12:46 am UTC (link)
My mom and I discussed the data, and we think that it was only done by where the congregations are, and where it says "None Reported", there are often UUs there- there are, for example, two congregations in Nevada, but their total (reported) membership is 300.

But we aren't sure.

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[info]portable_dream
2006-04-18 01:13 am UTC (link)
It's based on proportion of people, not sheer number.

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[info]nerdpony
2006-04-18 01:23 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I meant to say that, just forgot.

It's 3:20am.

But what I meant was that there wasn't a colour category for "less than 0,1% but there are still some", which is a lot of what the none-reported areas are. (presumably).

Although the problem with that is that there are probably a few UUs (or more) in every county...

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[info]styroboots
2006-04-18 10:36 am UTC (link)
There's even at least one church in Wayne County, Michigan, which is also shown on the map white as the driven snow, untainted by religious liberalism :) .

Furthermore, I'm willing to bet that there actually are some counties out in, like, northern Idaho that don't have any UUs.

interesting icon, btw.

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[info]nerdpony
2006-04-18 10:46 am UTC (link)
Yeah, you're probably right.

Sophie Scholl was a German anti-Nazi activist and member of the activist group Weiße Rose. She, her brother Hans, and Christoph Probst were all captured by the Nazis and given the death penalty for their actions. The other members of the group had the same fate, just later. In their 4. flyer, they had the passage, "Wir schweigen nicht, wir sind Euer böses Gewissen, die Weiße Rose läßt Euch keine Ruhe!", which means (approximately) "We won't be silent, we are your "evil" conscience, the Weiße Ross will not leave you in peace!".

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[info]styroboots
2006-04-18 11:05 am UTC (link)
Hey, cool, you live in Germany, too! I live in Dresden, which isn't exactly close to you, but still. I don't know what it's like in the West, but in the East *everything* is named after the Geschwister Scholl. It was one of the many ways they tried to separate the DDR from their Nazi past.

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[info]nerdpony
2006-04-18 12:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm here as an exchange student. I was in Dresden in the middle of February with my exchange organization.

There are a lot of other things named after the Geschwister Scholl/Weiße Rose. A lot of things in the Pfadfinderbewegung, but there's also a Gesamtschule in Hamburg called the Sophie Scholl Gesamtschule. My Gesamtschule is named after Anne Frank...

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[info]mordyn4
2006-04-18 01:51 am UTC (link)
Maps are love.

Now, let's map % Professors and College Students, or #of Colleges per county.

Will the maps be similar to this map? It's my pet hypothesis that they will.

M.

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[info]uu_mom
2006-04-18 03:42 am UTC (link)
I suppose you're talking about non-Christian colleges? There are actually quite a lot of those & probably not so many UUs around them. Unfortunately I think there's a lot of professors who never heard of UUism, too. If you see such a map, let us know. The white areas on this map is shameful. We need to get our message out. We also need more campUUs ministries.

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Wait a sec...
[info]revia
2006-04-18 02:58 am UTC (link)
I live in the northwest corner of Indiana. That's where Valparaiso University is. I go to a UU church in this area. It's one of the oldest churches in the county I live in. It has always been Unitarian. And we get "none reported"?? That is so not fair. It's the damned Lutherans at VU fudging the numbers.

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off topic and left field....
[info]greyeyedgirl
2006-04-18 02:09 pm UTC (link)
just have to ask...where in NW Indiana?

my fiance is from St. John, IN. we go back every year for the winter holidays...and have been thinking of moving back into the area in a few years. although closer to Chicago. maybe Oak Park (unity church is there! ::drool::)

are you there for Winter Solstice? i've been looking for a UU church to connect with while i am there...especially for the holidays. i found a few churches that i can get to - but its always nicer when you have some kind of connection. ya know?

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[info]pizzuti
2006-04-18 03:08 am UTC (link)
My guess is that if more people actually knew what Unitarians are there would be a lot more purple.

I bet most of the white areas are white simply because that county doesn't have a church and the people living there call themselves UCC Christians or spiritualists.

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[info]uu_mom
2006-04-18 03:30 am UTC (link)
It would be if they used the ARIS instead of the UUA stats. Lots of people who say they're UU (like maybe my adult offspring) don't actually belong to a congregation, so they're not counted. But I agree with you that people not only know what what UUism is, many never heard of it & we need to do something about that.

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[info]autosparta
2006-04-18 06:01 pm UTC (link)
I second this, I have been UU for years, but I didn't realise there was such a thing as what I believed in in organized religion.
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[info]tryswitch
2006-04-18 03:53 am UTC (link)
huh. my county is pink/peach. interesting.

thanks for posting this

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[info]uu_mom
2006-04-18 03:58 am UTC (link)
Thanks for this. I wonder of the CLF numbers are included.

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[info]dcseain
2006-04-18 05:18 am UTC (link)
I think they must be included because of the pale-coloured counties in Montana, the Dakotas, and Utah. That would be too large an area for 5, 5, and 5 churches to support. Especially since all of South Dakota's churches report only 130 members. Even allowing for low populations there, CLF i think would need to be included for numbers to show up at all.

I notice that the tiny church in Las Vegas doesn't even register, of course their members are scattered across 5 counties in 3 states, which dilutes them quite a lot.

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[info]spiffyuu
2006-04-18 04:58 am UTC (link)
LOVE your icon

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[info]portable_dream
2006-04-18 05:37 am UTC (link)
thanks.

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[info]politicallydest
2006-04-18 11:57 am UTC (link)
We have work to do. ;) Those other colors are beating us.

Anyone a UU in Southern Virginia?

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[info]jim_mcfarland
2006-04-18 05:32 pm UTC (link)
Appropriately, I am in a peach colored county in the Peach State. I know we have more UUs than all purple counties in Georgia combined, number wise, but we are in the most populated part of the state, so the percentage is lower.

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for the good of the organization
[info]xois
2006-04-18 06:46 pm UTC (link)
For the good of the organization, I'll move from Purple Massachusetts, and relocate to Hawaii to start a church...I know it will be a sacrafice, but I'll do it for the good of Unitarian Universalism! ;)

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[info]schwael
2006-04-18 10:23 pm UTC (link)
not sure that's a good idea. i've heard that a lot of Hawii residents, while welcoming of tourists, are not keen on immigrants. From this I would also guess that most of them follow hawiian traditions.

but hey, there's still a few white spaces in sunny california and sunny florida. for the good of the organization! hazaa!

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[info]kujian
2006-04-19 01:43 am UTC (link)
Yay for Purple massachusetts (I'm in Plymouth, although I don't belong to a congregation).

We could claim one of the islands for ourselves! Or some other small island somewhere.

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All adherents from 149 religions
[info]uu_mom
2006-04-18 08:36 pm UTC (link)
I pointed this thread to the UUA's list, PR-L, and someone pointed out this map.:

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[info]schwael
2006-04-18 10:26 pm UTC (link)
wtf? how is the county outside of Indianapolis more purple then Indy is?? is there a church between here (Earlham College) and Indy that I don't know about?? Or do they all just commute to church?

oh, wait, i bet that it's because the population is so low once you leave the city that it's easier to hit that percentage point. as awesome as this map is, it'd be more awesome if it were by actual numbers.

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[info]nerdpony
2006-04-19 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Muncie. :)

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