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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I moved from one part of the country to another it's weird how cub scouts in one place will be "hey im janet we like the kids to get together and be scouts. Heres some lemonade" and the other is " im bill , the south will rise again. Beers under the confederate flag"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The LDS cutting ties... To make their own viyscouts with more indoctrination?