Shifting Religious Identities

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Explore this interactive graphic showing data collected over 18 years from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS).

The 2008 results, to be released today, are based on 54,000 interviews with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5%. It finds that, despite population growth and immigration adding nearly 50 million more adults, almost all denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS data was released in 1990.

USA Today

This is really interesting and it indicates that the term "Christian Nation" definitely doesn't apply to the U.S.