Bombarded by Baptists? In a May 8, 1976, article, the New York Times reported, “Altogether, in some 30 associations and groups of independents, there are almost 80 million Baptists in the nation. They are outnumbered only by the Roman Catholics.” Is the number 80 million plausible? Visit the Web site www.census.gov/popest/archives/

1990s/popclockest.txt to see what the population of the United States was in 1976.