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In reply to the discussion: I. Don't. Care. If. You're. Christian. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(170,451 posts)but that one chart shows a % of "Protestant/other Christian" on one row and then shows a % "Catholic" row, where really, "Catholics" are "other Christian". So you don't know what the "total Christian" % (all sects) was unless "Catholic" is actually being rolled into that top row as the "other Christian" designation, and should have been indented as a breakdown group.
And in the case of the Evangelicals, they are usually the "do as I say, not what I do" crowd. So after decades of getting "lip service" from Nixon ( "Religious Right" ), Raygun ( "Moral Majority" ) and Poppy/Shrub ( "Christian Coalition" ), they finally found someone disinterested enough to let their genie out of the bottle in order to scrape up votes, and hope to keep them for 2020.
There's a good article about this here - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/billy-graham-evangelicals-and-american-presidency/