McCain and The Episcopalian Diaspora

He always puts down that he is an Episcopalian, although he has attended his wife's Baptist church for many years.

My uncle in Texas is just the same.

In fact, roughly three times as many people put down that they are Episcopalians than the Episcopal Church can find any record of. They or their families moved west, there were no Episcopal churches, they have been going to what there is ever since, but they still see themselves as Episcopalians.

Like the English Church Papists of old. And, I was once told, like a secretly recusant section of the Russian nobility to this day.