Religion and Politics: A Facebook “Survey”
Disclaimer: This is a survey of all profiles visible to me on Facebook, and is obviously not scientific. Take these results with a grain of salt; not only is this only representative of a Midwest-centric population, but college students are known to be less than truthful in their profiles. Additionally, Facebook has limitations (such as 500 results per search), and only profiles which specify both Religious Views and Political Views are included. Several religions which don’t show enough followers to offer any correlation have been omitted.
| Christian | Jewish | Buddhist | Muslim | Hindu | Agnostic | Atheist | Pagan | Wiccan | Unitarian Universalist | |
| Very Liberal | 146 | 25 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 78 | 63 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Liberal | 712 | 117 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 143 | 92 | 9 | 4 | 19 |
| Moderate | 1329 | 42 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 76 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Conservative | 1627+ | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Very Conservative | 293 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apathetic | 114 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Libertarian | 71 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 897 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 63 | 53 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
I’ll analyze these results later; I’m just posting them right now. What’s interesting to me is that of all the religions listed, Christianity is the only one in which Conservatives outnumber Liberals… I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
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