I read this and I thought to myself, "There's no way there are even 54 million evangelicals in all of the USA." Sure enough, survey data suggests that about 30% of Americans are evangelical.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/20242/Ano...ica-Today.aspx
Quote:
There is no hard-and-fast definition of who "evangelicals" are in America today. For practical purposes, one approach is to define evangelicals as white, non-Catholic Christians who agree that the label "evangelical or born again" describes them. Recent survey data suggest that about 3 in 10 American adults meet these criteria. Compared with the overall national population, this group of evangelicals tends to be slightly more female and older, a little less well educated, more likely to live in the South, and much more likely to be Republican and conservative.
Over 100 million evangelicals? Jesus Fucking Christ. Really?