‘Political Evangelicals’? More Trump Supporters Adopt the Label

[Michie]

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Surveys show evangelical identity holding steady over the last presidency, but with more complicated partisan connotations for the church.


Despite tense polarization, there was no mass exodus from evangelicalism by white evangelicals who disliked Donald Trump nor by evangelicals of color during the four years of his presidency, Pew Research Center found.

According to analysis released Wednesday, more Americans started identifying as born-again or evangelical Protestants between 2016 and 2020 than stopped calling themselves evangelicals. The boost came almost entirely from white Trump supporters.

Among those who didn’t consider themselves evangelicals when the former president was elected, nearly 1 in 6 had begun identifying as evangelicals by 2020. Just 1 percent of white Americans who did not favor Trump made the same switch.

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‘Political Evangelicals’? More Trump Supporters Adopt the Label

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Why such an exclusive look at "White" Evangelicals?

 

[BrAndreyu]

Why such an exclusive look at "White" Evangelicals?

Because the White Evangelical is the target of the left's hatred. They are blamed for nearly everything that the left doesn't like from "White Supremacy" to "Exclusion" of LGBTQWERTY+. The left in America has been in a bitter, protracted war with the "White Evangelical" since the 80s. Little do they know, that racial minorities such as blacks and latinos actually go to church at a higher percentage rate than most Whites and that the "exclusionary attitudes" toward LGBTQWERTY+ are a big part of black and latino culture... Most black churches do not take a "tolerant" tack toward homosexuality or gender nonsense.