I’ve read about small towns that are 100% White, or near 100% Black, or, near the Mexican border, 100% Hispanic. My question is are there any areas that are 100% of a certain religion? Like everybody in the town is Protestant, or Catholic, or Jewish.
I know a few towns like that.
Where?
Look at his location. 
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There used to be a town like that near here. It’s “motto” was the “city of churches” and it featured a set of (white) praying hands painted on its water tower. It’s name is South Holland.
I have no idea if there were any Jewish or “other” religions in the town back when I was growing up, but this town is no longer white nor 100% Christian now.
It’s a satellite community of Holland, Michigan (settlers from MI moved to IL and started a “south” version). I know that in Holland, at least a few years ago, the ordinances against business on Sunday etc were quite strict. As far as I know, Holland MI is still a “Christian” town.
New Square, NY is not only all-Jewish, but populated exclusively by members of a specific Hasidic Jewish sect.
I’m going to assume that the OP is talking about towns in America, because the situation described is the norm in much of the rest of the world.
:smack: :smack: How did I miss that?? :smack: :smack:
Dunno
Small potatoes. According to your cite,
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I within 10 miles of Kyras Joel, New York. The population, according to an article this week in the Times Herald Record, has just passed 20,000 residents. That is a LOT of Satmar Hasidim in a very very small amount of square miles. Cite
Similarly, K.J. is a village with ONLY Satmar Sect Jews as residents.
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I believe Yoder in Kansas is a fully Amish town, and I think there are some Mennoninte towns/communities in Kansas as well. Wikipedia entry on Yoder.
back in the late 70’s /early 80’s wasn’t there a town more or less taken over by bagwan Sri Rajneesh.
“In the 1980s, he and his followers built a 65,000-acre city from scratch in the Oregon wilderness. Some people called it an experiment to provoke God, and others called it a fascist concentration camp.”
see: http://www.realization.org/page/topics/osho.htm
Also the famous “Jones Town” comes to mind…
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Colorado City, AZ, headquarters of the FLDS sect and founded by them in 1913.
My hometown apparently does have Baptist and Protestant churches, but they just seem like those buildings that are always empty. I don’t think I know anyone from there that isn’t Catholic or atheistic. Learning about how JFK could have lost the presidency because he was Catholic or community battles between Christian churches in small towns just mystifies me because I grew up in such a monoreligious place.
It is? I would disagree, at least for Canada. I’d also find that hard to believe about many Commonwealth countries such as say Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland where there is a fair amount of religious diversity. I’d also be surprised to learn that were true of many northern European countries.
That said, in Canada there are some smaller communities of Hutterites who live communally. Their communities, referred to as colonies are agrarian, and self-sufficiency oriented, including education. I have a friend who teaches at one of the colonies. With the exception of the limitations on the use of technology, she has found it a rewarding experience, with very well behaved children, and a welcoming community. She gets lots of great “teacher gifts” in the form of farm-fresh food.
I thought that K.J. had a small but significant non-Jewish population, but I suppose I could be wrong about that.
Many small towns in Utah are 100%, or real close, LDS.
My understanding of Kyras Joel is that it was a recent(ish) development that was intentionally planned. (My pop grew up in Monticello NY and we still have family near there.) The Kyras Joel has developed to the point where non-Hasids have all left town. Basically, it was decided that this town would become a small extremely fundamental jewish town following the Hasidic rules. It is my understanding that the government actually closes down roads during the Sabbath and contracts with an outside service for emergency services for the Sabbath.
Basically, once the percentage of Hasids was to the point where they could enforce religious laws, anyone who did not feel that they wanted to live with strict Hasidic laws sold out.
(Reading the cite, it seems my memory and my pop’s description are both pretty good.)
Damn, beaten to the punch on the Utah cite. While I was growing up Bountiful was 99% Mormon, or so it seemed. It may be less now, but there are many towns in the “Mormon Corridor” which are almost all Mormon. See this reference (based on 1990 statistics) for some interesting statistics, including Rich County, Utah, (where my cousin has a cabin) with a 98.55% Mormon stonghold. With only 25 non-Mormons in the county, one has to guess that at a couple of the towns are going to be 100% Mormon.