Poll: Vermonters, New Hampshire residents pray less
Monday July 14, 2008
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP)
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A new poll suggests that people in Vermont and New Hampshire are less religious than those in other states.
The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, released last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that people in the two northern New England states pray more infrequently and are less likely to believe in God and attend weekly church services.
The survey, which combined Vermont and New Hampshire into one for reporting purposes, based its results for the two states on 320 responses, with a 6 percent margin of error.
It found that 71 percent of the 35,000 people polled nationally said they believed in God or a universal spirit, compared with 54 percent of those in Vermont and New Hampshire.
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