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Thursday, March 7th, 2024

Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: Findings from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Atlas

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Source:     PRRI
Publication Date:     02.28.2024
 Link: Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: Findings from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Atlas
Stephan:  

Here are the facts about Christian nationalism. (I dislike having to capitalize Christian in this context inasmuch as this movement has nothing to do with Jesus’ teachings.) This is what we are up against. The only we democracy survives is if you, me, and everyone we know votes and we all vote only for Democrats. Anything less and this may be the last fair election in America’s future. I am neither exaggerating nor being partisan in the traditional sense. We have one party that has been taken over by fascists, and one that still supports democracy. In that sense, it is very simple.

To view a PDF of slides presented during PRRI’s February 28, 2024, webinar on the report, please click here.  For a replay of the PRRI webinar via YouTube, please click here.

Executive Summary

Throughout 2023, PRRI interviewed more than 22,000 adults as part of its American Values Atlas, which provides for the first time the ability to estimate support for Christian nationalism in all 50 states. Additionally, this new analysis examines how religion, party, education, race, and other factors intersect with Christian nationalist views.

Roughly three in ten Americans qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers.

  • Three in ten Americans qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents (10%) or Sympathizers (20%), compared with two-thirds who qualify as Skeptics (37%) or Rejecters (30%).
  • These percentages have remained stable since PRRI first asked these questions in late 2022.

Residents of red states are significantly more likely than those in blue states to hold Christian nationalist beliefs.

  • On the map, states with the highest levels of support for Christian nationalism form a horseshoe shape, starting in the upper Midwest, dipping down into the deep South, and then moving up again through the Appalachian Mountains. There are five states in which more than 45% of residents are Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers: […]
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