More Americans say they have no religion

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Vermont reporting the highest share of people claiming no religion, at 34 percent in a new survey.

A wide-ranging study on American religious life suggests that the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined. And more people say they have no religion at all.

Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region.

The American Religious Identification Survey reports that more than three-fourths of U.S. adults call themselves Christians — a shrinking percentage owing to sharp declines among mainline Protestants.

But more than one-third of American adults identify themselves as evangelical or born-again.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion — a category that increased in every state.

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