Snitz's big data roundup

Back in 2000, 83% of Americans believed in the Baby Jesus. A few priests mess with you know who and this happens! His father must be really pissed.

The Data: Religious identification among Americans has plateaued after two decades of general decline. On average, in 2024, 45% identified as Protestant, 21% as Catholic, 10% as another religion and 22% as none — all stable since 2018.

The Trend: The religious “nones” surged in the 2000s and 2010s, but recent years mark a leveling-off of secularization.

Speaking of religion, people need to have faith. The Dark Lord will turn things around...haha.

The Data: Forty-four percent of Americans in April express confidence in President Donald Trump's economic leadership — slightly lower than his inaugural reading in 2017 (48%) but close to his first-term average of 46%.

The Trend: Gallup has tracked economic confidence in presidents annually since 2001. All presidents but Trump began their terms above 50%, including Barack Obama at 71%. The highest economic confidence rating recorded was George W. Bush's 73% in April 2002 (after 9/11). The lowest ratings were 34% for Bush and 35% for Joe Biden closer to the end of their terms.

On a positive note, people are starting to let all that climate sheet go. Who cares!

The Data: A record-high 48% of Americans now see global warming as posing a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% in 2024 and just 25% in 1997.

Effects Have Begun: In response to a question asking when the effects of global warming will begin to happen (with options including: they have already begun to happen; they will start happening within a few years; they will start happening within your lifetime; they will not happen within your lifetime, but they will affect future generations; they will never happen), 63% now say the effects of climate change have already begun, essentially tying the high of 62% in 2017.