Last week Public Religion Research Institute published "Summer Unrest over Racial Injustice Moves the Country, But Not Republicans or White Evangelicals." The article begins with an exploration perceptions of police killings of unarmed black men over the last five years. Based on surveys conducted in October 2015, October 2018, and June 2020 the trend is toward fewer Americans believing that recent killings of unarmed Black men are isolated incidents and a greater and greater number Read More …
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Partisan Polarization – 3 Critical Issues (#1834)
PRRI recently released a report titled "Fractured Nation: Widening Partisan Polarization and Key Issues in 2020 Presidential Elections" that presents key data from the 2019 American Values Survey. The following image shows just how wide the partisan gap is for the top three critical issues. White Christians A religious divide also exists. While 42% of Americans self-identify as white Christians, the survey found 69% of Republicans compared to 30% of Democrats self-identify as Read More …
Religiously Unaffiliated: 25 Years of Growth (#1648)
From 1971 to 1991, the religiously unaffiliated ranged between 5% and 8% of the adult population in America. While data from the General Social Survey shows that the percentage was higher in some years than others, it featured growth and decline in irregular and unpredictable ways within that narrow range. Twenty-five years ago (1991) I had no idea what it meant to be religiously unaffiliated. Terms like "nones" or "religiously unaffiliated" were not in my vocabulary. While my Read More …