For the purposes of your poll I checked Protestant. Though this past Sunday I am sure I shocked some of my own congregation's members when I informed them that we United Methodists actually are technically NOT protestants.
Protestant refers to those who come from the traditions that protested against the "alleged" problems of the Catholic Church and insisted on some type of reform. Since it didn't happen from within (or at least not fast enough to suit these protesting reformers), then they continued to do develop their own reform from outside the Catholic Church. Hence the name given to that era of the Protestant Reformation. It was a theological discourse turned into a revolution. Some of the major groups coming out of that tradition are: Lutheran, Presbyterian, Christian Reformed, Moravian, Mennonite, Amish, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Congregational Churches, United Church of Christ and of course the Pilgrims and the Puritans a few centuries back.
My Methodist heritage is traced back through John Wesley who was a leader of the Methodist societies, which was actually a movement within the Church of England. Wesley, the "Father" of Methodism was to his dying day an Anglican priest. And those who know there western Europeam history know that the origin of the Anglican Church had nothing to do with the protestant reformation, but King Henry VIII's desire to get a divorce or annulment from his wife and the refusal of the Pope to grant it. So, acting as King, Henry merely ordered all those who would not cede to his authority over the Church in England back to Rome and the Church in England became the Church of England. And that is why we Methodists (and Anglicans and Episcopalians) are technically not Protestants.
However, though the motivation for the split was purely political from Henry's point of view. The reality is that in time the character of these churches began to reflect many of the view of the protestant reformers on the continent. So, in the US at least, we typically don't make a big deal out of it and just go along with the crowd that labels us Protestants. It's only on occassions like this that I like to educate people to look beyond the easily slapped on categories.
