The grounding of today's partisan differences in such elemental components of social identity as religion — as well as race, education and age — helps explain why the power balance has grown so difficult for either party to fundamentally shift. | Analysis
Whites who identify as Christians composed a vastly larger share of the population in the counties Donald Trump won last fall than those captured by President Joe Biden, according to previously unpublished data provided to CNN by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute from a pathbreaking new study estimating religious affiliation at the county level.
."Today we should probably replace 'It's the economy, stupid' with 'It's American identity, stupid.'"Still a Christian nation?Jones, like other analysts, believes a pervasive sense of loss and displacement in a diversifying country has solidified the strong affinity for Trump-style politics among many White Christians, especially White evangelical Protestants.
studies, White Christians reached a low point of 42% of the population in 2018. 's data, evangelicals now comprise 14.5% of Americans, down from about 21% a decade ago. Jones says that while there is no conclusive proof in the data, there's evidence to suggest that some White Protestants who once might have identified as evangelical have migrated toward more mainline Protestant denominations over unease with evangelical leaders' unconditional identification with Trump.
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