And to forestall the obvious rebuttal, I agree that faith is about more than going to church. But church attendence can be measured.
Southerners are just more conservative and more religious than the average Northeasterner, be they Catholic or Protestant.
(and the idea that the NE is Catholic would come as a huge surprise to the Boston Brahmins and old New Yorkers, not to mention all those Congregationalists and Presbyterians . . . )
Since there is only one “Church”, and the Catholic church is it, I’d have to say Catholics attend Church at vastly superior numbers to any other denomination. Enjoy attending your ecclesial community meeting come the Lord’s Day. God Bless.
I really don’t know about Catholics in the north east, but that is not the only place catholics reside, nor a valid gauge of Catholic’s Christianity.
That would be like me saying there are no (what ever protty religion) because there is not a church for them in my Midwest town.
Most Catholics are growing in their commitment to Christ, bet out of the northeast and you may see things are really quite different in our wonderful country.
To put a religious inference in your statement regarding New England and the South is dumb. For one thing, the South is not a Protestant monolith, just as New England is not a Catholic monolith. That you could make such a statement already casts aspersion on the logic of your reasoning, but let’s take your argument to task.
All I am going to say is, church attendance in southern Louisiana, which is largely Catholic, is on the exact same par with northern Louisiana, which is Bible Belt Protestant.