Black, White, and Gray: Racial-Religious Patterns in the 2012 Elections
I received a news alert from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life where they ran a slide show of religious affiliations and political party, and given that they ran one of the few Asian American surveys ever, I thought surely they would add in the Asian Americans this time. Alas no. So I found the numbers from both the July report and from the recent slideshow to put together a few figures that help us put race and religion in a more comprehensive picture of where a lot of religiously-identified voters stand:
There is a lot of interesting info in this post. I'll just highlight one chart:
I'm looking at the White Mainline numbers. Our routine denominational surveys would show that significantly more Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. folks identify as politically conservative, but pastors are substantially more liberal.
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