Posted on 09/14/2016 11:42:36 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
White and Christian voters are abandoning the Democratic Party, according to a remarkable new analysis of political party demographics.
The Pew Research Center found that there is now a 29-point white gap, the largest ever between the GOP and Democrats.
According to the new analysis, "non-Hispanic whites make up 57 percent of all Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters, down significantly from 76 percent in 1992. By contrast, though the share of GOP voters who are white also has declined since 1992, the change has been much more modest: Currently, 86 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters are non-Hispanic whites, compared with 93 percent in 1992. As a result of these changes, the 17-percentage-point gap between the share of white voters in the Republican and Democratic parties seen in 1992 has grown to a 29-point gap today."
Ditto for Christian voters, with the share of atheists and other religiously unaffiliated voters nearly tripling in the Democratic Party.
Said Pew, "The pace of change in religious affiliation has been far faster among Democratic than Republican voters, resulting in a widening gap between the two parties in the shares who do not affiliate with a religion. In 1996, just 10 percent of Democratic voters were religiously unaffiliated; today that share has nearly tripled to 29 percent. Among Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters, the share not affiliating with a religion has increased from 6 percent to 12 percent over the past two decades."
On the positive side for the Democrats, that party is getting younger and smarter.
"A greater proportion of Democrats than Republicans now have a college degree or more education," said Pew, adding, "The Republican Party – once more youthful than the Democratic Party – has aged rapidly over the past 24 years."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
They are the party of hate.
This is nothing more than liberal Pew group accusing whites & Christians of racism while lacking `empathy & inclusiveness’.
Right up there with “all the racist southern Dixiecrats became Republicans after the Civil Rights Act was passed.”
Meh.
Darn straight!
Perhaps college used to make people smarter (outside of STEM), but those days are long gone. The purpose of college now is to make people stupider, which is proven by the fact that nowadays more Democrats than Republicans have a college education indoctrination.
Nowadays, it's pretty clear that college kills brain cells.
I’m thinking Black Lives Matter is secretly being funded by the KKK, because they are doing a bang-up job of damaging race relations in the US. The more the Social Justice Warriors attack white people, the more they demand ever more goodies because of “white privilege”, the more white people will say “enough!” and leave the Dem plantation.
This is why Tim Kaine is an abomination.
HE will die in a few decades. The Catholic Church, already 2000 years old, will continue. I guess those folks didn't read the words of the Bible: marriag = one man, one woman.
What appalling arrogance Kaine has...to voice the need to change GOD'S LAW.
They don't KILL them but inflict wounds on them.
Those same college grads go out into the big, wide world, look for work, work like slaves...and their eyes WILL OPEN. They do change.
Not the ones who remain Democrats.
I’m thinking God is using Trump to wake people up and that awakening has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter or the KKK.
True, though the voting process IS secret.
As people mature and work hard for home, health and education they DO tend to acknowledge that money DOESN'T grow on trees but on the back of hard labor, whether manual or intellectual.
Perhaps that is why we had so many GOP presidents for a while.
All my life, it’s been called the Democrat Party. Now, even Wikipedia refers to it as Democratic. Democratic is a method, not a party. I noticed this change about a year ago, and everyone in the media has been calling this party the Democratic Party and the members thereof Democratic, rather than Democrat or Democrats. Why?
Whites are demonized because they oppress the minorities, and Christians are divisive because they divide those who are saved from those who are not. Why should they stay in a party that hates them?
Whites are demonized because they oppress the minorities, and Christians are divisive because they divide those who are saved from those who are not. Why should they stay in a party that hates them?
“On the positive side for the Democrats, that party is getting younger and smarter.”
Do the ever so smart young Democrat even know the term “fiscal policy”?
Why not sooner? I don’t see how any Christian can be a Democrat, or any Catholic be a Democrat. Hell, I don’t see how anyone except ISIS can be a Democrat.
When I was out there battling these younger libtards, many would quote The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as their source for news. I would just laugh at them for getting their news from a comedian, (not a very good one at that). Sad but true.
CGato
I understand your rationale.
I may renounce my RNC membership after the general.
I have not felt tangibly represented in, oh, 22 years.
Yep. You are very right.
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