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BSA Membership Graph (1911 - 2023) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24428192

Stolen from Reddit.

The big drop in the 1970's was supposedly due to a change in the program to de-emphasize outdoor activities. The step down in 2019 was the LDS church cutting ties and starting their own program.

If you consider this as a proportion of the population it's an even bigger drop. In 1970 there were about 4.8M scouts in a population of 205M, so about 2.3% of all Americans were in Boy Scouts. Now it's 1M scouts in a population of 341M, so only 0.3% of Americans are in Boy Scouts.

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's worse than that because they are not even Boy Scouts anymore. They rebranded to Scouting America since the move to be more open around members. Girls and LGBT are now welcome in many troops.

Our pack in particular is also deemphasizing the Christian aspects.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The horror?

[–] Jode@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Right? Who the fuck is this guy?

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Finally

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

Would not have let my kids otherwise.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

that's awesome!

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 points 2 months ago

Speaking as a former den leader, it's humbling but not surprising to see that the pandemic literally cut membership in half and there was no bounce back. I got my den through it, and we lost a few, but gained a couple new kids the year after the vaccines came out. I never realized it was this bad.