Glenn Beck says Boston is a city ready to ‘melt down’
Sounds legit.
The non-profit Public Religion Research Institute released an interesting, well-researched survey last week detailing the American cities with residents least affiliated with religion.
A smart analysis could have taken those 15 least religious cities, all major metropolitan areas, and analyzed why city-dwellers are less religious or whether this trend is increasing or decreasing. A reasonable person might have pointed out, for example, that Boston skews heavily Catholic while Nashville is dominated by White evangelical Protestants.
Instead, conservative radio host Glenn Beck immediately warned his listeners to avoid these cities “like the plague,’’ he said on his The Blaze radio show last week.
“I want to give you the top 10 or 15 cities that I think are going to melt down,’’ he said. “These are the cities that you do not want to live anywhere around as things get worse and worse.’’
Boston comes in at No. 9 in the ranking, with 24 percent of its residents unaffiliated with religion. Portland topped the list with 42 percent of people unaffiliated.
“These are the cities that are already having trouble,’’ Beck proclaimed, without giving any evidence of that. “We haven’t even hit the road bump.’’
“Are they all sanctuary cities?’’ another member of his show asked.
“Probably,’’ Beck replied.
Cutting-edge analysis, once again, from Beck.
Gallery: All the troublesome things Beck will miss out on.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said the survey found Nashville residents are more Hispanic Protestant. In fact, the survey found Nashville residents are more White evangelical Protestant.
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