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UAE/Saudi might be more wierd points (wierd circumstances after all). I don't think Israel, Italy & Canada would be as strikingly off map as the US.

It may be a dumb map. But I think you might be able to draw correlation even if you take all countries into account.

As a Canadian, I would be awfully surprised to see Canada up there with the US. Note that religion hasn't been a factor in Canadian elections for several decades.

To be clear, I don't suspect those countries would be on par with the US, merely that they would be outlying points showing a less perfect distribution.

Beyond that though, wow. I'm amazed that a poor article on something so far from Hacker News got upvoted so many times.

Which is why I want to move to Canada.

Missing data points doesn't argue against the main point:

The correlation is -.80: that's amazing especially in contrast with where the U.S. stands.

Still, I agree that I'd love to see this data with every country included. But I highly doubt it would change the correlation that much.