[daniel1212]

That is true, all my family were democrats, they like many other Catholic ethnic groups, Italians (like me), Polish (like my wife), Irish, Bavarian-Germans, or French, voted for Kennedy 75%. However, those same people were the mainstay of the Reagan Democrats. Nixon in 72 was the first Republican to get over 50% of the Catholic vote, Carter got them back in 76 but Reagan got 61% in 1984 (the most ever). I think about 59% of Catholics are Non-Hispanic White (consists of family name from among 1 of the 5 ethnic groups I mentioned above). In 1990, the statistics were probably about 70-30 Non-Hispanic white to other ethnic groups, mostly from Central and South America. Republicans have pretty much Nixon in 72 gotten most of the Non-Hispanic white Catholic vote. But even if those groups account for 70% of the Catholic vote, getting 60% of that vote only equats to 42% of the total Catholic vote. Even getting 70% doesn’t get you to 60% (49%). So Allen’s basic hypothesis is correct.

• 47% of white Catholics identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, while 46% supported the GOP in the mid-September [2012] poll [up from 41% in 2008], while 72% of white evangelicals identified with the GOP. http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx#president

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[CTrent1564]

The point of the article was not to compare Catholics to white evangelicals. The point was an inter-Catholic comparison. Is that so hard for you to understand. I think everyone knows that white evangelicals, who are predominately in the South, vote overwhelmingly Republican. Blacks and Jewish Voters on the other hand vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Catholics are perhaps the last swing independent voters in the Country. Trump won Catholic votes 52-45. Nixon won them in 72, Reagan by a landslide in 84. Obama slightly won them in 2008 and 2012.