NYT chart

[essentialsaltes]

Religious affiliation mapped out on graph of education/income.

ETA: some words that go with the chart, but the chart more or less says it all.

Comments

[ian-tiberius.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that "seculars" are so far down the educational scale. Also, it strikes me a little funny that the closest group to Muslims is...the Catholics.

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

Seculars do better than the average, but yeah not by a whole lot. It is something of a myth that college destroys religious faith; however, I believe there is an effect that liberalizes religious faith, so the Pentecostal freshman becomes a Methodist or Presbyterian senior. Or even shudder a Unitarian.