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St. Louis *does* have a lot of Evangelical Protestants.
Chicago - 924,108 St. Louis - 480,735
Detroit - 455,991
Minneapolis - 434,221
Kansas City - 415,008
Indianapolis - 346,444
Cincinnati - 329,126
Louisville - 300,056
Milwaukee - 222,507
Cleveland - 188,704
Nothing that stands it apart from other Midwestern cities. As a percent of population it's certainly not the highest. Nice try though. And why do you keep including Louisville? It's a Southern city. You've never been there clearly if you think it's Midwest. It's interesting that you alway take the opposite stance of me. I wonder if you're really just attempting to get a hostile reaction out of me because you enjoy it.
Nothing that stands it apart from other Midwestern cities. As a percent of population it's certainly not the highest. Nice try though. And why do you keep including Louisville? It's a Southern city. You've never been there clearly if you think it's Midwest.
Kansas City - 20.3%
Indianapolis - 17.9% St. Louis - 17.2%
Cincinnati - 15.4%
Milwaukee - 14.2%
Minneapolis - 12.7%
Detroit - 10.6%
Chicago - 9.7%
Cleveland - 9.1%
Kansas City - 20.3%
Indianapolis - 17.9% St. Louis - 17.2%
Cincinnati - 15.4%
Milwaukee - 14.2%
Minneapolis - 12.7%
Detroit - 10.6%
Chicago - 9.7%
Cleveland - 9.1%
And your point being? It's not the highest in the Midwest. Indy and KC have higher percentages. I wouldn't really call it a Southern influence.
I hard it hard to believe there is no Southern influence in St. Louis. Most (reasonable) posters can agree that Baltimore has some Southern influence. How is it that Baltimore has some Southern influence while St. Louis has absolutely none?
Well I have yet to see anyone provide an actual example of southern culture in St. Louis outside of influences from the Great Migration, which also affected most large midwestern cities. I am willing to listen to people about this but chances are the only thing that people will come up with are generalizations and words like "country" as if country has anything to do with "southern".
Indianapolis and Kansas City both have Southern influences...
Catholicism is much more dominant in the St. Louis region. And another tidbit-- St. Louis County has a higher per capita Jewish population than Cook County (Chicago).
The increased number of Indianapolis immigrants from Southern Indiana, which had been settled primarily by Upland Southerners, heightened the southern flavor of the capital city. Many cultural geographers have identified southern Indiana as part of a transitional zone between northern and southern cultural regions. This zone typically extends from the Ohio River to the NATIONAL ROAD (Route 40) and includes southern Ohio and southern Illinois where cities such as Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis display a strong degree of Upland Southern population and cultural influence.
Catholicism is much more dominant in the St. Louis region. And another tidbit-- St. Louis County has a higher per capita Jewish population than Cook County (Chicago).
True, but it's surprising to see nearly the whole state of Missouri outside of St. Louis identify as Southern Baptist. I find it hard to believe there are no-or minimal-Southern influences in Kansas City or St. Louis.
(Map from Mutiny in the rustbelt thread)
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