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Tommy Carcetti

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5. I definitely feel heard.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 05:38 PM

Jul 2025

Being a practicing Catholic and coming from a family of left-leaning but very much practicing Catholics.

I think another wrinkle is Catholic converts versus "Cradle Catholics" (Catholics raised up from birth who are still practicing to some degree or another.)

The converts tend to be more conservative and staunchly traditionalist (think JD Vance, for example), whereas the Cradle Catholics not quite as much (think Joe Biden, for example.)

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Catholics Are More Liberal Than You Might Think [View all] applegrove Jul 2025 OP

That is definitely not the case here in rural Central Texas. They are some of the most walkingman Jul 2025 #1

60 years of Republican indoctrination since Kennedy. IMHO applegrove Jul 2025 #2

Evangelicals are worse DenaliDemocrat Jul 2025 #8

54% of Catholics voted for Trump.. Permanut Jul 2025 #3

In the U.S.A. they split along the same lines as the general population does... hunter Jul 2025 #4

I definitely feel heard. Tommy Carcetti Jul 2025 #5

In Texas I've noticed that the Catholic Hispanic population seems much more liberal walkingman Jul 2025 #6

I was raised in Liberal Guitar-Mass Catholicism. maxsolomon Jul 2025 #7