Oh God! A survey on American congregations just came out. Larry Witham comments:

Utah, with its large Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership, for the second decade running had the highest rate of church affiliation at 74.7 percent. The District of Columbia is close behind with 73 percent. By comparison, adherence in Imbler is 31 percent, and it is 33 percent in Washington.

No big surprise, the Pacific Northwest is God's country, but for some reason people don't reciprocate [1]. Utah and D.C. though are very different regions, no? I grew up with Mormons in eastern Imbler, nice people. But one of my roommates was being offered $100,000 straight out of college to take a job in Salt Lake City a few years ago (this isn't San Francisco, the $100,000 would have gone real far!) because so few techies wanted to move their (so he told me-I know he was not a genius programmer or anything, he was good at what he did, but his skill set at the time was a bit narrow). [1] Not that there aren't evangelicals and Christians around, atheists and agnostics simply aren't that unusual. My governor doesn't specify his religious affiliation, if any, for instance. No big deal. And just because one of out five people are not religous, it doesn't mean that society is collapsing and there is no morality, like in D.C. for instance.