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rapidity in predominantly manufacturing states, while the relative losses of the Catholics have been greatest in New Mexico, District of Columbia, Oregon, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Florida. On the other hand, the rela- tive gains of the Protestants have been in Nebraska, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, District of Columbia, Iowa, Oregon, Virginia, Georgia, and Cali- fornia, and their relative losses have been altogether in New England, the Middle States, and North Carolina (specifically, in order, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont). I am not able, with the data at hand, to say how much of the membership gain in the eastern manufacturing states is due to foreign immigration."