What rot. There are just as many grass roots Democrats that are religeous and attend church as there are Republicans.
This board is full of conservatives, like myself, who care little for organized religion. I haven't been inside a church for anything but weddings and funerals since 1960, yet I've never pulled the lever for a Dem and can not think of any circumstance in which I would.
Did you read the whole article?
"As a matter of fact, there is," I answered. "Since 1980, religious Americans of all faiths--fundamentalist Protestants, observant Catholics, even Orthodox Jews--have been moving toward the Republican Party. At the same time, secular Americans have found a home in the Democratic Party.
And this piece isn't the only place this observation has been made. GOP strategists noticed in reviewing exit polls from Bush Sr's '92 defeat that the single greatest determining factor of whether a voter continued to support him was church attendance.
You simply cannot credibly argue that the party of the ACLU, atheists, and the rest of the "separation of church and state" weinies are as devout religiously as the GOP.
The only area where you might have half a point is on black Americans, whom, last I read, attend church at slightly higher rates than whites. Though if there's any evidence great numbers of them take their faith more seriously than their status as a "victim" group, as manifested in their drone-like support for Democrats, I'd like to hear it.