Robert P. Jones
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images White Evangelicals Can't Quit Donald Trump
New polling finds that their support for the president remains strikingly high. But are they mortgaging the future of the faith?
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Trump Can't Reverse the Decline of White Christian America
Two-thirds of those who voted for the president felt his election was the "last chance to stop America's decline." But his victory won't arrest the cultural and demographic trends they opposed.
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Not Even the Reddest States Support Deportation
Most Americans take a pragmatic view of responding to the challenges posed by illegal immigration.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Trump Remixed the Republican 'Southern Strategy'
The presidential candidate has resurrected divisive GOP campaign tactics that target and alienate minorities.
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Michael Conroy / AP The Eclipse of White Christian America
A once powerful demographic group is losing ground in American politics.
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David Goldman / AP How 'Values Voters' Became 'Nostalgia Voters'
White evangelicals are culturally and economically disaffected—anxious to protect the conservative Christian culture rapidly disappearing in America.
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Gerry Dincher / Flickr Evangelicals Discover Moral Ambiguity on the Death Penalty
A new focus on systemic institutional problems reflects the changing demographics of the faithful.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters After Same-Sex Marriage, Then What?
On discrimination and religious-liberty claims, the battle for equal rights is far from over.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Religious Americans Support Gay Marriage
Most of the recent growth in public support for same-sex unions has come from within denominations that once opposed them.
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Mark J. Terrill/AP What Americans Actually Think About Immigration
A poll of 40,000 people reveals that the areas of consensus are broader than many suspect.
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Jacquelyn Martin/AP Even Republicans Love Obama's Immigration Policies
GOP voters support the executive actions in principal, but oppose them once they're linked to the president.
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Carlo Allegri/Reuters White Christmas, Black Christmas
Though minority and white evangelical Protestants have more in common than any other Christian groups, they are deeply divided on matters of race and justice.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Southern Evangelicals: Dwindling—and Taking the GOP Edge With Them
Why are Democrats keeping it close in five key Senate races? Look at changing demographics.
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Stephen Lam/Reuters Is Support for Gay Marriage Dropping? Don’t Count On It
A Pew poll last week showed a small dip, but the overall trend—and more importantly, the underlying fundamentals—haven't changed.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson
One reason for the racial divide over Michael Brown's death is that white Americans tend to talk mostly to other white people.
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M. Spencer Green/AP Crossing Party Lines at the Border
A new poll shows Americans are surprisingly united on how to deal with migrant children—even if their leaders are not.
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Jae C. Hong/Associated Press How the Politics of Nostalgia Sank Eric Cantor
His loss isn't about immigration narrowly. It's a lesson in how any legislation that threatens cultural transformation can raise the hackles of Tea Party Republicans.
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Molly Riley/Reuters Hidden Racial Anxiety in an Age of Waning Racism
Even as they quickly condemn the likes of Donald Sterling, surveys reveal whites have serious misgivings about a more diverse nation.
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Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters Pope Francis's Challenge to the Evangelical-Catholic Coalition
Social issues have brought about a surprising alliance between Protestant evangelicals and Catholic bishops—but the pontiff's focus on economic justice could complicate matters.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The South's Stunning Embrace of Gay Marriage
Even in the nation's most culturally conservative region, attitudes are now evenly split on marriage equality.
