{"id":71444,"date":"2018-05-23T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71444"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:15:01","slug":"pew-rc-religiously-nonwhite-democrats-are-more-similar-to-republicans-than-to-white-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71444","title":{"rendered":"(Pew RC) Religiously, nonwhite Democrats are more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Religiously, nonwhite Democrats are more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GK1VVYuhSH\">https:\/\/t.co\/GK1VVYuhSH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2mCYW38jT\">pic.twitter.com\/r2mCYW38jT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PewReligion\/status\/999297565802881030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">It\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/15\/democrats-still-havent-faced-their-god-problem\/\">sometimes said<\/a>\u00a0that the Democratic Party is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/news\/electioncenter\/articles\/why-god-is-such-a-problem-for-democrats.aspx\">less comfortable with religion<\/a>\u00a0than the GOP. And it is true that, on the whole, Democrats are less religious than Republicans. But this glosses over profound racial and ethnic differences within the Democratic Party: While\u00a0<em>white<\/em>\u00a0Democrats are less likely to be religious than Republicans,\u00a0<em>nonwhite\u00a0<\/em>Democrats \u2013 who mostly identify as black or Hispanic \u2013 more closely resemble Republicans overall on a host of religious measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">For example, among Democrats and those who lean toward the Democratic Party, 95% of all nonwhites (which includes 99% of blacks) say they believe in God or a higher power, according to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2018\/04\/25\/when-americans-say-they-believe-in-god-what-do-they-mean\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. This is exactly the same level of belief seen among Republicans and Republican leaners. By contrast, 78% of white Democrats believe in God or a higher power. And the share of white Democrats who say they do\u00a0<em>not<\/em>believe in God or any higher power (21%) is quadruple the level seen among nonwhite Democrats (5%), as well as among both white and nonwhite Republicans (5% each).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/05\/23\/religiously-nonwhite-democrats-are-more-similar-to-republicans-than-to-white-democrats\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religiously, nonwhite Democrats are more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats: https:\/\/t.co\/GK1VVYuhSH pic.twitter.com\/r2mCYW38jT &mdash; Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) May 23, 2018 It\u2019s\u00a0sometimes said\u00a0that the Democratic Party is\u00a0less comfortable with religion\u00a0than the GOP. And it is true that, on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71448,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71444\/revisions\/71448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}