Generosity Index and Voting Patterns

The table below is the 2005 version of the Generosity Index (data courtesy of the Catalogue for Philanthropy), with states colored red or blue based on their voting patterns in the 2004 election. In the interest of avoiding conflict on this blog, I will leave any (obvious, IMHO) conclusions about the political implications to the reader. What would be really interesting, I think, would be seeing if there were a correlation between personal religious commitment by state,and the generosity index. By eyeball, their appears to be a strong correlation between the strength of traditional Christian influence on society and the level of giving (Baptist Mississippi versus secular Massachusetts, for example), but I don't have any numbers to back that up.

State	Having Rank	Giving Rank	Rank Relation	Generosity Index
Mississippi	50	6	44	1
Arkansas	46	5	41	2
South Dakota	44	9	35	3
Oklahoma	42	8	34	4
Tennessee	35	3	32	5
Alabama	38	7	31	6
Louisiana	43	12	31	7
Utah	30	2	28	8
South Carolina	39	13	26	9
West Virginia	48	22	26	10
Idaho	41	20	21	11
Texas	22	4	18	12
Nebraska	34	17	17	13
North Dakota	45	29	16	14
Wyoming	17	1	16	15
North Carolina	28	16	12	16
Kansas	27	15	12	17
Florida	23	14	9	18
Georgia	18	11	7	19
Missouri	31	24	7	20
Kentucky	40	33	7	21
New Mexico	47	40	7	22
Montana	49	45	4	23
Indiana	29	31	-2	24
Alaska	25	28	-3	25
New York	5	10	-5	26
Iowa	36	42	-6	27
Nevada	13	21	-8	28
Ohio	32	44	-12	29
Maine	37	49	-12	30
California	6	19	-13	31
Maryland	4	18	-14	32
Washington	11	25	-14	33
Vermont	33	47	-14	34
Oregon	26	41	-15	35
Pennsylvania	19	34	-15	36
Virginia	7	23	-16	37
Arizona	21	37	-16	38
Delaware	14	30	-16	39
Illinois	9	26	-17	40
Michigan	16	35	-19	41
Hawaii	24	43	-19	42
Colorado	10	32	-22	43
Minnesota	12	36	-24	44
Connecticut	1	27	-26	45
Wisconsin	20	46	-26	46
Rhode Island	15	50	-35	47
New Jersey	2	38	-36	48
Massachusetts	3	39	-36	49
New Hampshire	8	48	-40	50