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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The South has more churches per capita than other regions -- 15 per every 10,000 residents -- but the types of denominations available are often limited, according to a recent census of the American religious experience.

Only one Southern state, Florida, was among the top eight states in diversity of church group offerings, with 108. At the other end, Mississippi had 63 types of churches and South Carolina 65, according to data compiled by an arm of Glenmary Home Missions, a Roman Catholic organization based in Cincinnati.

The top five were Illinois (120), Michigan (118), Ohio (115), Pennsylvania (113) and California (111).

\"In the North, there was this mosaic of European groups that had strong churches, so that accounts for the wide range of denominations,\" said Robert Benne, director of the Center for Religion and Society at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. \"In the West, you get all this creativity\" in the formation of churches.

The survey found that Southern Baptists are the largest group in the region, with nearly 11.3 million followers from Oklahoma to the Atlantic Ocean, and their numbers grew slightly from 1990 to 2000. Methodists had nearly 3.7 million and Roman Catholics nearly 2.6 million.

The South\'s rate of churches of 15.4 per 10,000 residents was followed by the Mountain West at 14.2, the Midwest at 13.6, the Far West at 7.85 and the Northeast at 7.5.