Chris Suellentrop reports on the exodus of millions of Americans, especially younger ones, from churches. These “nones” are reshaping US political life—and in many cases are reacting to the appalling spectacle of seeing huge numbers of US Christians and their churches idolize Donald Trump.

#Trump #WhiteChristians #churches #nones #idolatry #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

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Michael Podhorzer on what the media refuse to talk about, but one poll after another demonstrates:

"Instead of accepting that Republicans are 'socially conservative' because they don't have a college degree, we should recognize the reality in front of our face, which is that they are 'socially conservative' because they are overwhelmingly white Christians."

"White Christians dominate the Republican coalition."

#Republicans #WhiteChristians #media

https://michaelpodhorzer.substack.com/p/confirmation-bias-is-a-hell-of-a

5. "In terms of its racial and religious composition, the Democratic Party looks like 20-year-old America, while the Republican Party looks like 80-year-old America."

6. "The continued demographic decline makes it clear that the MAGA goal of reestablishing their vision of a white Christian America can’t be realized by democratic means."

#WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #Republicans #MAGA #democracy

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3. "Today, white evangelical Protestants comprise only 13.6% of Americans."

4. "The median age of all white Christian subgroups—54 for both white evangelical and non-evangelical/mainline Protestants, 58 for white Catholics—is considerably higher than the median age of all Americans (48), an indication of the exodus of younger adults from these congregations."

WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians

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Robert P. Jones offers an important report of PRRI's just-released RRI Census of American Religion. Some key takeaways:

1. It "confirms that the decline of white Christians (Americans who identify as white, non-Hispanic and Christian of any kind) as a proportion of the population continues unabated."

2. "in the last ten years, white evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest decline."

#WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians

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https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/five-charts-that-explain-the-desperate

"White Christian subgroups exhibit the most support for replacement theory: half of white evangelical Protestants (51%) and 41% of both white mainline Protestants and white Catholics agree that immigrants are invading the country."

The graphic is from PRRI's current issue of its newsletter "Morning Buzz."

#WhiteChristians #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMailine Protestants

https://www.prri.org/research/are-immigrants-a-threat-most-americans-dont-think-so-but-those-receptive-to-the-threat-narrative-are-predictably-more-anti-immigrant/

"Whiter counties were more supportive of Trump overall — but counties with more White Christians were generally more supportive of Trump than equivalently White but less religious counties."

#Trump #WhiteChristians

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As Philip Bump points out, it's not just white evangelicals who have supported Trump: it's white Christians in general. He writes,

"Data from PRRI shows that the density of White Christians in a county was a better indicator of support for Trump in 2020 than simply the density of White residents."

#Trump #WhiteChristians

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/17/trump-republicans-evangelicals/

Religion is another indicator of the likelihood to accept or reject the white supremacist theory of white replacement. White Christians are most likely to believe in the concept, including 51% of white evangelicals and 41% of both white mainline Protestants and white Catholics.

#immigrants #WhiteChristians

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