Where are the hotbeds of Christian Nationalism? Who is causing all the problems? One approach is to map out the states with the highest density of right-wing Christian weirdos.
That doesn’t suggest any immediate explanations. My first thought was that maybe there is a correlation with poverty.
Nope, that isn’t it.
But then I noticed that Minnesota is always an exception compared to neighboring states. And that Washington, where I was born and grew up, is always on the side of right.
The correlation is clear: I, personally, am a benign influence on any state where I live.
I thought about leasing my presence to any state that wants to join the progressive future, but I had to nix that plan when I realized I might have to move to Arkansas or West Virginia.
Nope. The subtitle on that page is “Share whose views align with Christian Nationalist beliefs.” So those are the states with the highest fraction of right wing Christian weirdos. Whereas density would imply the most right wing Christian weirdos per square mile. A state could have a higher fraction of such weirdos but have a low population density; so that they were outnumbered by a highly populous state with a lower fraction.
I would have expected Idaho to be worse, but they are on par with Florida. Both are in the mids. There are worse states than Florida?
Education?
About christian nationalists, you may need to break up the map in which kind of christian nationalists.
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“The Three Christian Nationalist Factions You Need to Understand”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=UnCXmy3Mx2o
If I understand them correctly it is
Catholics/Opus Dei + Christian Dominoists + baptists who welcome the apocalypse.
And then there are smaller groups; mormons, Jehovas witnesses et cetera.
birgerjohansson @4
In what way are Jehovah Witnesses Christian Nationalists? There’s much wrong with their belief system, but they are supposed to be politically neutral, don’t vote, and famously against doing the pledge of allegiance in the US. They too suffered at the hands of Nazis and now under neo-tsarist Putin.
Jehovah Witness adherents to Christian Nationalism are around 6% and sympathizers 20% according to:
https://prri.org/research/mapping-christian-nationalism-across-the-50-states-insights-from-prris-2025-american-values-atlas/
An image showing how various religious views relate to Christian Nationalism:
https://prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/PRRI-Feb-2026-CN-in-50states-Fig_6-980×1024.png
I guess another way to look at it is according to that PRRI image 6% of JWs reject Christian Nationalism and 36% are skeptical of it. Funny that 32% of JWs skipped out/don’t know, more than any other group. Yet they knock on our doors and expect us to engage. Or maybe they are turning the tables.
There’s other stuff in the atlas summary pertinent here. The percentages are close between black and white people:
https://prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/PRRI-Feb-2026-CN-in-50states-Fig_10-1024×562.png
drksky@3 Here’s education (and age):
https://prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/PRRI-Feb-2026-CN-in-50states-Fig_9-1024×714.png