I’m arguing that Protestants in general are less likely to vote Republican than White Catholics. If it’s about the faith and not the race, you would be honest and admit that the problem isn’t Catholicism.
How does your obsession with racial purity within the Catholic church help conservatism, it is the Catholic vote that matters and that has only gone republican 5 times in history, and only once against an incumbent democrat, and while the whites who haven’t left the denomination yet have started voting a little more republican, it doesn’t change the Catholic vote.
“Protestant” includes all kinds of people and denominations, including the black vote and purely liberal denominations, yet the category has only voted democrat 3 times in our history, and 2 of those were 1932 and 1936, the category of “white Protestant” is very republican with numbers that blow away the “white Catholic” vote, “Evangelical” Protestants are extraordinarily pro-life and republican voters at 79%, America’s second largest denomination (Southern Baptist) in size to the Catholics, votes 80% and higher republican.
It does no good to see a recent shift among the whites of the Catholic denomination when we are importing Catholics by the millions from more pure Catholic nations than America has ever been, Catholics who have not been contaminated by growing up in a Protestant culture and with Protestant neighbors.