Mississippi Is Ranked #1 Religious State in US

Mississippi is America's most religious state while President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii has taken New York's place among the least religious ones, according to results of a Gallup poll released this week.

With 58 percent of Mississippi residents describing themselves as very religious, the state's average of very religious people is 40 percent higher than America's least religious state, Vermont, where only 19 percent of residents say they are very religious. It is also 18 percent more than the national average of 40 percent of Americans who describe themselves as very religious.

Gallup identifies very religious people as those individuals who say religion is an important part of their daily life and that they attend religious services weekly or almost every week.

The results of the poll are based on data collected from more than 348,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking in 2012. More than 1,000 interviews were conducted in all but two states and the District of Columbia, according to Gallup.

40 percent of Americans identified as being very religious, some 31 percent of Americans described themselves in the poll as non-religious. They said religion was not a part of their daily life and they rarely or never attend religious services.  

Source : Christianpost