What can explain that so few of the christians in america's south, like tenesee, are catholic, barely a quarter despite catholic large families?

[strateguy632]

What can explain that so few of the christians in america's south, like tenesee, are catholic, barely a quarter despite catholic large families?

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7 mo

tenesee was a good example, 83% are Christians but only 6/83 are catholic! Carolinas and Georgia around ten 10% it seems catholics failed to convince their own children, to follow pope so they became protestants. Now even more catholics are fleeing catholic. See my question why so many leave.

[Anonymous]

The south are traditionally WASPs and immigrants to there were originally Protestants with no spainish or Mexicans. Its was strong kkk territory and they hated catholics, such as Irish, spainish, mexicans, Polish, Italians, scilians and those immigrants in the 1860-1960s im. igrated to northern cities. They might have lumped greek orthodox in with catholics. Course they also hated jews. Maybe louisananna has 22% catholics.

[strateguy632]

Omg the OPPOSITE florida and more WAS Spanish colony from catholic spain until... Treaty of Paris, (1763), "in states of Alabama, Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas too, Spanish catholic came and irish who are catholic came...
And missionary convinced natives to switch faith and integrate... and catholic have many kids due to religious laws... so why so few...

[Opinion Owner]

It was true up until around after the civil war. Irish catholics came after the civil war and generally to the northern States. Irish prodestants were already in the southern states, being already plantation owners in ulster.
One of the big reasons the spainish and later mexicans lost states like texas to the US was because they were sparsely populated with spainish colonists, waves of American colonists b4 and after the us civil war emptied it

[Jersey2]

Catholics streamed into cities in the North East such as Boston, New York, through out New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore. My ancestors did this and many, most , stayed in those areas.

[LiamJHayden]

While the South was discriminating against Blacks, they also dicriminated against Catholics and Jews. While it is generally over, if what you start out with is Baptists, 60 years later you'll still probably have mostly Baptists.

[strateguy632]

But catholic have big families.

[LiamJHayden]

But they have to move to those areas first.

[strateguy632]

You can’t claim catholics never came because they ARE there now, but why so few?