Pew is reputable, and statistics can be counterintuitive with the number of samples needed for reliable results. Still, it would be more useful to see the actual questions asked

According to this, they sampled 35000 americans. https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/

You're right to be skeptical about polls in general. A lot of garbage out there

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if the poll is suspect, I can tell you from personal experience it is much different up here. I just moved to New England from Texas and the difference is just staggering. I'm in an upper middle-class semi-rural area and there are pride flag everywhere. The church in on the main road has a sign that says, "Everyone Welcome" with rainbows on it. The city themselves gave out pride signs for people to put in their yards. These are not things you would ever see in Texas (outside of maybe Austin).

I coach youth soccer and my last season in Texas I had a player with 2 dads. One of the league officials sent me a message before the start of the season "warning" me about that. Absolutely nothing like that here. No one bats an eye or comments on the makeup of a kid’s family.

This is all just from my experience as a straight CIS male. I'm sure someone from the LGBTQ+ can give a better perspective.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

In the lower class, what used to be lower middle class. And left New England because I had the opposite experience. Oddly enough I moved to the SW and find it much more accepting.

In New England I always found acceptance to be class based.