text: 1% of those five and older) spoke only English at home in 2010, a minor decrease from 96.1% in 2000.Alabama English is predominantly Southern, and is related to South Midland speech which was taken across the border from Tennessee.In the major Southern speech region, there is the decreasing loss of the final r, for example the "boyd" pronunciation of "bird".In the northern third of the state, there is a South Midland "arm" and "barb" rhyming with "form" and "orb", respectively.Unique words in Alabama English include: redworm (earthworm), peckerwood (woodpecker), snake doctor and snake feeder (dragonfly), tow sack (burlap bag), plum peach (clingstone), French harp (harmonica), and dog irons (andirons).Religion In the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, 86% of Alabama respondents reported their religion as Christian, including 6% Catholic, with 11% as having no religion.The composition of other traditions is 0.5% Mormon, 0.5% Jewish, 0.5% Muslim, 0.5% Buddhist, and 0.5% Hindu.Alabama is located in the middle of the Bible Belt, a region of numerous Protestant Christians.Alabama has been identified as one of the most religious states in the United States, with about 58% of the population attending church regularly.A majority of people in the state identify as Evangelical Protestant., the three largest denominational groups in Alabama are the Southern Baptist Convention, The United Methodist Church, and non-denominational Evangelical Protestant.In Alabama, the Southern Baptist Convention has the highest number of adherents with 1,380,121; this is followed by the United Methodist Church with 327,734 adherents, non-denominational Evangelical Protestant with 220,938 adherents, and the Catholic Church with 150,647 adherents.Many Baptist and Methodist congregations became established in the Great Awakening of the early 19th century, when preachers proselytized across the South.