Map of church attendance by state was interesting. Twelve times a year or more is probably a much better criterion for judging some level of religious commitment than weekly or just a couple times a year, which pulls in the Easter and Christmas crowd.
Once again, Mississippi ranks at the top, as it has in prior surveys for percentage of income given to charity. Gotta figure that state deserves a lot more love than it gets from the mass media!!
Also have to say I'm disappointed in my own state of Texas, at just 29%, though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. It seems to me that at least occasional church attendance is considerably higher in towns and rural areas, but that number is swamped by the lackadaisical attendance in cities and suburbs.
"20 year old White men are now more Right-wing than 75 year old White men"
The paradox is the 75-year-olds voting Democrat have what would be considered very right-wing opinions - tough on crime, anti illegal immigration, don't believe in/unaware of transgenderism, anti-PC culture, etc - but they keep watching CNN and voting Democrat like it's the 1990s. Meanwhile young males voting Republican probably have more moderate or liberal views but are reacting to a culture they perceive as far-left.
The Ryan Burge map really drives home how big the religious gap is from state to state. High of 37% attending church 12x/yr in Mississippi to just 10% in NH/VT. Would be interesting if it were possible to see data on how that gap changed over time. I would assume it has grown. In any case, it gives a quick snapshot of why Americans can’t understand each other today.
The Korean government subsidy for getting married won't work, because the problem in Korea is open hostility between young men and young women, due to the effects of feminism, the sexual revolution, etc.
But there could be societies where government policies and economics are the key issues. Not South Korea, though.
Perhaps if the UMC, PCUSA and Episcopalian churches started a new approach, like preaching the Gospel and teaching from the Bible they might have some success.
Enjoy the thoughts on AI. This discussion is going to be important. If you haven't used Deep Research, it's a game-changer, the first application that has me drinking the Kool-Aid. For pure Internet information-gathering tasks, it's already outperforming interns and entry-level staff. Though now I produce so many reports for myself to read, I don't have as much time to read other things. I'm paying for the $200 ChatGPT Pro Plan so that I can just spam these requests for Deep Research reports. Grok has the feature for free, but so far ChatGPT has proved better for what I'm doing.
Speaking of agency, I was recently in a room full of college students bound for IB careers. When the question was asked, "Who here is personally subscribed to the paid tier of a gen AI service?", nearly every student's hand in the room shot up.
As for the death of managerialism -- I have my doubts. I was just at an enterprise software conference. I strongly suspect that the economic benefits of AI are going to accrue disproportionately to large enterprises, for whom it will decrease friction across teams and allow them to better leverage the proprietary data they've collected.
I think we need to be careful labeling people as "rightwing" or "leftwing" based on a single vote. I know a couple guys who voted for Trump but whose general positions, like supporting SSM and legal marijuana, are not at all "rightwing"-- they simply found Trump less objectionable than Kamala Harris though now that he's president they are finding plenty to criticize. Likewise with Harris voters-- I know a classic libertarian guy who voted for her because there were too many deal-breakers involved with Trump (though he would have voted for a "normal" Republican easily).
Map of church attendance by state was interesting. Twelve times a year or more is probably a much better criterion for judging some level of religious commitment than weekly or just a couple times a year, which pulls in the Easter and Christmas crowd.
Once again, Mississippi ranks at the top, as it has in prior surveys for percentage of income given to charity. Gotta figure that state deserves a lot more love than it gets from the mass media!!
Also have to say I'm disappointed in my own state of Texas, at just 29%, though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. It seems to me that at least occasional church attendance is considerably higher in towns and rural areas, but that number is swamped by the lackadaisical attendance in cities and suburbs.
"20 year old White men are now more Right-wing than 75 year old White men"
The paradox is the 75-year-olds voting Democrat have what would be considered very right-wing opinions - tough on crime, anti illegal immigration, don't believe in/unaware of transgenderism, anti-PC culture, etc - but they keep watching CNN and voting Democrat like it's the 1990s. Meanwhile young males voting Republican probably have more moderate or liberal views but are reacting to a culture they perceive as far-left.
The Ryan Burge map really drives home how big the religious gap is from state to state. High of 37% attending church 12x/yr in Mississippi to just 10% in NH/VT. Would be interesting if it were possible to see data on how that gap changed over time. I would assume it has grown. In any case, it gives a quick snapshot of why Americans can’t understand each other today.
The Korean government subsidy for getting married won't work, because the problem in Korea is open hostility between young men and young women, due to the effects of feminism, the sexual revolution, etc.
But there could be societies where government policies and economics are the key issues. Not South Korea, though.
Perhaps if the UMC, PCUSA and Episcopalian churches started a new approach, like preaching the Gospel and teaching from the Bible they might have some success.
Enjoy the thoughts on AI. This discussion is going to be important. If you haven't used Deep Research, it's a game-changer, the first application that has me drinking the Kool-Aid. For pure Internet information-gathering tasks, it's already outperforming interns and entry-level staff. Though now I produce so many reports for myself to read, I don't have as much time to read other things. I'm paying for the $200 ChatGPT Pro Plan so that I can just spam these requests for Deep Research reports. Grok has the feature for free, but so far ChatGPT has proved better for what I'm doing.
Speaking of agency, I was recently in a room full of college students bound for IB careers. When the question was asked, "Who here is personally subscribed to the paid tier of a gen AI service?", nearly every student's hand in the room shot up.
As for the death of managerialism -- I have my doubts. I was just at an enterprise software conference. I strongly suspect that the economic benefits of AI are going to accrue disproportionately to large enterprises, for whom it will decrease friction across teams and allow them to better leverage the proprietary data they've collected.
But I sure hope I'm wrong!
I think we need to be careful labeling people as "rightwing" or "leftwing" based on a single vote. I know a couple guys who voted for Trump but whose general positions, like supporting SSM and legal marijuana, are not at all "rightwing"-- they simply found Trump less objectionable than Kamala Harris though now that he's president they are finding plenty to criticize. Likewise with Harris voters-- I know a classic libertarian guy who voted for her because there were too many deal-breakers involved with Trump (though he would have voted for a "normal" Republican easily).