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The OP title is not meant as a sleight, it is simply a fact. Whether or not this is good or bad, I will leave that up to posters to give their own opinions.
This site is is compendium of polling and demographic data:
10 Things the American Values Atlas Teaches Us About Religion
And there is a cool interactive map with many possible parameters:
PRRI American Values Atlas
From the first link:
6 more data points at the website to see, all worth perusing.
The demographics of our Union continue to change, and not just in terms of race/ethnicity. Religious affiliation is also changing as well. And attitudes toward sex and sexuality are changing all over the USA.
What kind of political ramifications this has for the future would be a good point to debate, in an adult way, please.
The question is whether the changes we are seeing will cause one or both of the major parties to make some platform changes, or perhaps encourage a third-party.
I encourage you to go to the second map and do some clicking, perhaps start with your own state.
For instance, in Ohio:
Party affiliation (Ohio does very, very weird VR stats through it's SOS, it has for many, many years), according to the massive polling data:
D 31 / R 23 / I 38, margin: D +8
(it was D +7 in the 2012 exit polls)
But:
Political Ideology:
Conservative 37 / Moderate 30 / Liberal 26
This can only mean that a great many "Independents" in Ohio have a more Conservative worldview, but don't necessarily affiliate themselves with the GOP, or are not (yet) registered.
Religion:
White Evangelical Protestant 23 / White Mainline Protestant 17 / White Catholic 17
Ohio is NOT one of the states where White Christians are a minority. They are a majority in Ohio.
Race:
White, non-hispanic 81 / black 11 / hispanic 3 / others 5
(Ohio used to be 90% white in the 1960s).
As I said, lots and lots and lots of data, all in one map.
Have fun.
This site is is compendium of polling and demographic data:
10 Things the American Values Atlas Teaches Us About Religion
And there is a cool interactive map with many possible parameters:
PRRI American Values Atlas
From the first link:
Based on more than 50,000 interviews overall and 40,000 for select issues—immigration, same-sex marriage, and abortion—it may be difficult to know where to start!
But we have you covered: here are the top ten things the AVA tells us about America’s evolving religious landscape.
1. For the first time ever, America is not a majority Protestant nation. Only 47 percent of America identified as Protestant in 2014. At 81 percent, Mississippi is the most Protestant state in the union and Massachusetts is the least at 26 percent.
2. White Christians are the minority in 19 states. Hawaii and California have the smallest white Christian populations of any state—20 percent and 25 percent, respectively. White Christians also make up a modest proportion of the residents in other western states, including Oregon (43 percent), Washington (42 percent), Nevada (36 percent), and Arizona (38 percent).
3. More than 1-in-5 Americans are religiously unaffiliated. At 22 percent, the religiously unaffiliated rival other major religious groups in size, such as American Catholics, who make up 22 percent of the population. Young people are also three times more likely than seniors to be religiously unaffiliated—34 percent vs. 11 percent.
4. In fact, the religiously unaffiliated is the largest religious groups in 13 states, including Oregon (37 percent), New Hampshire (35 percent), Washington State (33 percent), and Vermont (32 percent).
6 more data points at the website to see, all worth perusing.
The demographics of our Union continue to change, and not just in terms of race/ethnicity. Religious affiliation is also changing as well. And attitudes toward sex and sexuality are changing all over the USA.
What kind of political ramifications this has for the future would be a good point to debate, in an adult way, please.
The question is whether the changes we are seeing will cause one or both of the major parties to make some platform changes, or perhaps encourage a third-party.
I encourage you to go to the second map and do some clicking, perhaps start with your own state.
For instance, in Ohio:
Party affiliation (Ohio does very, very weird VR stats through it's SOS, it has for many, many years), according to the massive polling data:
D 31 / R 23 / I 38, margin: D +8
(it was D +7 in the 2012 exit polls)
But:
Political Ideology:
Conservative 37 / Moderate 30 / Liberal 26
This can only mean that a great many "Independents" in Ohio have a more Conservative worldview, but don't necessarily affiliate themselves with the GOP, or are not (yet) registered.
Religion:
White Evangelical Protestant 23 / White Mainline Protestant 17 / White Catholic 17
Ohio is NOT one of the states where White Christians are a minority. They are a majority in Ohio.
Race:
White, non-hispanic 81 / black 11 / hispanic 3 / others 5
(Ohio used to be 90% white in the 1960s).
As I said, lots and lots and lots of data, all in one map.
Have fun.