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    Switching Religions

    About 44% of U.S. adults have switched religious affiliation including dropping any connection to a specific religious tradition.

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    A Bare Majority of Protestants

    The number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at 51%.

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    The Second Coming of Jesus

    Fully 79% of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Christ will return to Earth someday.

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    Do U Txt?

    Ambivalent Networkers — the 7% of Americans most dedicated to their cell phones — are always connected but don’t always love to hear their phone ring, vibrate or play a downloaded song.

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    Losing Journalists

    The Project for Excellence in Journalism estimates that one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 no longer does so.

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    Econ 101

    More Americans know the unemployment rate than the level of the Dow.

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    Alaska, the Least ‘Sticky’ State

    Just 28% of adults born in Alaska still live there, placing it last among the 50 states on this measure of population “stickiness.”

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    GOP Party Identification Slips Nationwide and in Pennsylvania

    The Republican Party has continued to lose adherents in 2009. In combined surveys since the start of the year, fewer than a quarter (23%) of Americans identify as Republicans. In total, the GOP has lost roughly a quarter of its base over the past five years. But these losses have not translated into substantial Democratic gains.

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    Religious Groups’ Views on Global Warming

    The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity while white evangelical Protestants (34%) are the least likely to believe in man-made global warming.

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    Minority Enrollment in Suburban Schools

    Virtually all of the 3.4 million increase in suburban public school enrollments over the past decade and a half has been due to a rapid increase in Latino — and to a lesser degree — black and Asian students.

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