Sentences with phrase «white evangelical protestant»

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

PRRI's 2016 survey found that 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 17 percent identify as white evangelical Protestant.

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

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And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

According to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey, 8 % of white evangelical Protestants favor tighter gun laws.

White evangelical Protestants are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, Pew found.

Almost half of white evangelical Protestants (46 %) report that it's become more difficult to be a Christian in America today, compared to one - third of non-white evangelicals (31 %).

HELLLLOOOOOO — according to the article only 8 % of white evangelical Protestants favor tighter gun laws.

White evangelical Protestants answer an average of 17.6 religious knowledge questions correctly.

Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.

b All US adults... 33 %... 60 % White Evangelical Protestants... 64 %... 27 % Black Protestants... 50 %... 44 % Hispanic Catholics... 31 %... 53 % White Catholics... 26 %... 68 % Unaffiliated... 20 %... 76 % White Mainstream Protestants... 15 %... 78 %

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

By a 48 to 34 percent margin, white evangelical Protestants questioned say they oppose allowing gays from serving openly, while majorities or pluralities of other religious groups surveyed favor allowing gays to serve.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Now, as I said, not all White Evangelical Protestants are active members of the Religious Right.

Contrary to that image, White Evangelical Protestants are mostly in the demographic mainstream, with only somewhat less formal education and a slightly larger proportion of poor people than the population as a whole.

Most of them are White Evangelical Protestants.

According to a Pew Research Center report released last year, 40 percent of American women oppose abortion in all or most circumstances, and white evangelical Protestants are far more likely than any other religious group to side against it.

«Along religious lines, white evangelical Protestants and black Protestants, on the one hand, and atheists and agnostics on the other, are the most likely to say they are uncomfortable with Romney's faith,» the Pew report said.

In the meantime, only 11 percent of white Catholics and white evangelical Protestants are under 30.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home.

But the embattled Alabama Senate candidate, who is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted, harassed or made sexual advances toward teenagers, still appears to have the support of a big chunk of his base ahead of the special election being held on Dec. 12: Alabama's white evangelical Protestants.

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.

Not exact matches

And polling shows that white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to support Trump even with the Stormy Daniels news, and do so at higher levels than other religious groups.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

Among nonwhite Christians and white evangelicals, 40 % and 38 % said yes, respectively; 29 % of Catholics and 19 % of white mainline Protestants also responded that God plays a role.

Most white evangelicals (63 %) and black Protestants (67 %) said churches should express views on social and political matters, but fewer (37 % white evangelicals, 45 % black Protestants) thought churches should endorse candidates.

Both groups were more likely to sympathize with both sides in the birth control coverage debate (27 % white evangelicals, 38 % black Protestants).

White evangelicals are the most likely to view the change negatively (77 percent), but the majority of white mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likeWhite evangelicals are the most likely to view the change negatively (77 percent), but the majority of white mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likewhite mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likewise.

In 2014, 30 percent of white evangelicals and 26 percent of black Protestants felt that way.

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

About a quarter of black Protestants (26 %) and 16 percent of white evangelicals didn't sympathize with either side.

Again, more black Protestants than white evangelicals said they could see both sides (20 % black Protestants, 12 % white evangelicals) or neither side (28 % black Protestants, 22 % white evangelicals).

Nearly twice as many black Protestants (45 %) as white evangelicals (26 %) said they could sympathize with either both sides (14 % white evangelicals, 19 % black Protestants) or neither side (12 % white evangelicals, 26 % black Protestants) in the marriage services debate.

More white evangelicals (27 %) than black Protestants (18 %) think of themselves in 2016 as a member of a minority because of their religious beliefs.

However, white evangelicals (89 %) and black Protestants (84 %) buck the trend, and are actually more likely to want a candidate that shares their faith than they did four years ago.

White evangelicals and black Protestants are more likely to say that it «really matters» who wins the election and to follow the news about the candidates closely.

Eighty - five percent of white evangelicals and 78 percent of black Protestants know someone who is gay or lesbian; fewer (20 % white evangelicals, 28 % black Protestants) know someone who is transgender.

«What's interesting is that these values, associated with Obama and the black Protestant tradition are now also the values of a growing number of white evangelicals,» she says.

According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted before the election, about two - thirds of white evangelicals (67 %) and mainline Protestants (65 %) believe that America does not have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.

Black Protestants have retained the greatest number of millennials compared with Catholics, white mainliners, and white evangelicals, according to 2012 data from the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

In fact, only about one - third of white evangelicals (37 %) and about half of black Protestants (45 %) believe that churches should endorse candidates during elections.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.