[ubermonkey]

It kinda depends on how you define "charitable" though.

Historically, churches treat money spent on themselves as "charity." There was an interesting discussion in Christianity Today a long while back about how, on the surface, it looks like Red state residents are more charitable than folks in Blue states -- but the difference was tithing to churches, which overwhelmingly consume those funds on operating their Sunday morning social club & related programming.

If you factored out that aspect, the comparison flipped dramatically.