Christianity in the U.S.

Percentage of Population Professing Christianity

Reaching back to its initial colonization—the original settlers were Catholic, after all—the United States has been predominately Christian. The exact numbers and percentage of Christian citizens has no doubt fluctuated—surely the percentage has actually decreased, given the continual influx of individuals from so many other nations—over the course of its several-century-long existence, but the U.S. has always been identified as a Christian nation. And, as recently as 2012—in spite of how increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-religious this country has become—77% of American citizens identify themselves as Christian, according to Gallup Politics. This is a significant majority, as the following visualization of the data highlights. At least 77% of the nation’s moral values and ideals were in line with Evarts’, and they surely shared his objections to the Removal Act; with the passage of the Removal Act, at least 77% of the United States’ citizens’ moral values were unceremoniously violated.