Worry in white, Christian America

[Guno צְבִי]

According to Robert P. Jones, the founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, the note’s “apocalyptic ring” stems from the anxiety, fear, and anger of some conservative white Christians who he says have, in the space of a decade, moved from the mainstream to the minority in America. In a conversation Wednesday evening at Harvard Divinity School with journalist and political analyst E.J. Dionne, Jones laid out the data behind his claims, collected in his recent book “The End of White Christian America.”

“Donald Trump got the highest percentage of white evangelical vote since we began recording,” noted Dionne. “Before Trump, the personal life of a politician really mattered. After Trump, it really didn’t matter.”

Both Dionne and Jones characterized the rightward trajectory of white Christians over the past 50 years in large part as a reaction to the gains of the Civil Rights, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, as well as to predictions that the U.S. will for the first time be majority nonwhite by 2042. As a result, the coalitions behind the country’s two major political parties look radically different.


https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...er-examines-worry-in-white-christian-america/

 

[katzgar]

According to Robert P. Jones, the founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, the note’s “apocalyptic ring” stems from the anxiety, fear, and anger of some conservative white Christians who he says have, in the space of a decade, moved from the mainstream to the minority in America. In a conversation Wednesday evening at Harvard Divinity School with journalist and political analyst E.J. Dionne, Jones laid out the data behind his claims, collected in his recent book “The End of White Christian America.”

“Donald Trump got the highest percentage of white evangelical vote since we began recording,” noted Dionne. “Before Trump, the personal life of a politician really mattered. After Trump, it really didn’t matter.”

Both Dionne and Jones characterized the rightward trajectory of white Christians over the past 50 years in large part as a reaction to the gains of the Civil Rights, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, as well as to predictions that the U.S. will for the first time be majority nonwhite by 2042. As a result, the coalitions behind the country’s two major political parties look radically different.


https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...er-examines-worry-in-white-christian-america/

I think a huge part of the white Evangelical Christians are boomers and they of course will be dead soon

78% of boomers are Christian 59% of Millennials are Christian

 

[Guno צְבִי]

I think a huge part of the white Evangelical Christians are boomers and they of course will be dead soon

78% of boomers are Christian 59% of Millennials are Christian

Geography/ location and education or lack of have a lot to do with it in the boomer population

 

[cawacko]

Geography/ location and education or lack of have a lot to do with it in the boomer population

It's interesting your first avatar was of wanting the working class to unite yet you seem to dislike/hate many working class people.

 

[Leonthecat]

Their demographic is on the wrong side of a rapidly shifting population.
They are, in fact, dying out.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello guno,

Good article.

"In 2016, 64 percent of those aged 65 and older identified as both white and Christian. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, the number was only 25 percent. Nearly 40 percent of young Americans claimed no religious affiliation at all."

None of these demographics are unseen to the movers and shakers of the Republican Party. It helps explain the willingness to go with Trump. Many may feel it is either Trump or Democrats. But in making such a difficult decision, the virtuous are repulsed.