Southerners and the Baptist Religion.

Factual Questions
41

I’ll poke through Pew, but I imagine Episcopalians are among the richest.

You can find Confederate flags everywhere. Including Sweden for some reason.

42

I did so, and can’t find a more affluent Christian group. Only greater are Jewish and Hindu (latter same percentage of >$100k, more $50k to $100k)

43

But the Presbyterians are better educated…

(WAG. don’t see the numbers)

44

For the southern US, by denomination or group, the percent that are college grads, according to the Pew study:

  • Mainline Protestants: 36%
    — Presbyterians: 56%
    — Methodists: 39%
    — Lutherans: 39%
    — Episcopalians aren’t broken out (sample size is too small)

  • Evangelical Protestants: 21%
    — Baptists: 19%

So, good guess on your part.

45

“They’re sixteen and they got a car. Somebody said they were both going to be Church of God preachers because you don’t have to know nothing to be one.”

‘A Temple of the Holy Ghost’

46

You can click through and it has the info, in order of 1) <= high school, 2) some college 3) college, 4) post graduate:
Episcopalians 16/29/31/25%
(Mainline) Presbyterians 27/27/25/21%

Or for graduating college, 56% vs. 46%. So Episcopalians have more education, but that doesn’t mean that Presbyterians are slouches.