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Data Road Trip Home

Eleven postcards from a religious nation.
By Jeremy Rue, Singeli Agnew, Toni DeAztlan, Samantha Grant, Joelle Jaffe, Clayton Worfolk, July 31, 2007

What does it mean to be Christian in the divorce capital of the United States? Or Catholic in the city with the most abortions? We poured over the statistics -- census numbers, spreadsheets, maps -- to find the places where god, sex and family intersect. And to tell the stories of the people behind the numbers. The Data Road Trip: Eleven postcards from a religious nation.

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Aug 14, 2007 - Our site is near completion. We have all of our projects up - or in some cases samples of the projects to come.

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The Data Road Trip project continues to inform viewers by showing the human side of religious statistics we found during our reporting.

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