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Related: About this forumMap: Buddhists in America
http://www.tricycle.com/blog/buddha-buzz-buddhist-news-around-world-week-november-12-snip-
Unsurprisingly, most of the American Buddhist action is concentrated on the coasts, with big numbers in California, Hawaii, and Colorado. But look at some of those orange pockets across the countryin Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas! It's hard to tell from this map, but it looks like Kentucky and West Virginia might be the least Buddhist states in the U.S., closely followed by North Dakota. Alaska's lookin' pretty gray out there, too. According to HuffPo's analysis of the survey results, the top ten Buddhist cities are San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Las Vegas (who knew there were Buddhists in Sin City?), Oklahoma City, Denver, and Raleigh (another surprise!). They seemed to have left out any cities in Hawaii, however, for no discernible reason. The least Buddhist city is Birmingham, Alabama.
Unsurprisingly, most of the American Buddhist action is concentrated on the coasts, with big numbers in California, Hawaii, and Colorado. But look at some of those orange pockets across the countryin Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas! It's hard to tell from this map, but it looks like Kentucky and West Virginia might be the least Buddhist states in the U.S., closely followed by North Dakota. Alaska's lookin' pretty gray out there, too. According to HuffPo's analysis of the survey results, the top ten Buddhist cities are San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Las Vegas (who knew there were Buddhists in Sin City?), Oklahoma City, Denver, and Raleigh (another surprise!). They seemed to have left out any cities in Hawaii, however, for no discernible reason. The least Buddhist city is Birmingham, Alabama.
I thought this was interesting. I wished the map was a little bigger, but you can zoom with your browser
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Map: Buddhists in America (Original Post)
onestepforward
Nov 2012
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bluedigger
(17,148 posts)1. I live on the coast now? (CO)
Tide must be out - sand as far as my eye can see.
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)2. Cool!
Thanks for posting.
libodem
(19,288 posts)3. very cool
Look, even a little activity in Idaho and Utah.
reACTIONary
(6,009 posts)5. Is "activity" a Buddhist virtue...
... maybe "even a little inactivity in..." would be more koanic.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)4. Very interesting.
Thank you for putting this up.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)6. The sound of one hand clapping. A silent bump.
littlemissmartypants
(25,483 posts)7. NC
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)8. we have a temple in Anchorage, Alaska. In case you
can't see it or they don't have a dot there.
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AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)10. *raises hand*
Last edited Sat Mar 23, 2013, 01:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Here is one!!
(but.. not presently practicing..)