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Check out @robertpjones latest #WhiteTooLong post w/ findings from #AVS2023 @BrookingsInst:
-Dems are now significantly more likely than Republicans to say their support for a candidate hinges on the candidate’s position on abortion (50% vs. 38%).
-74% of white evangelicals & 77% of GOP favor installing deterrents to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if they endanger or kill some people. Only 33% of religiously unaffiliated Americans and 15% of Democrats agree.
-Most Republicans prefer a presidential candidate who can preserve American culture (58%), while most Democrats and independents prefer a candidate who can manage the economy (57% and 53%, respectively).
https://t.co/RjPBeKSszV
"That trip resulted in the founding of La Isabela, in present-day DR [...] While the colony would not last, the ripple effects of the journey would soon be felt in all spheres of human interaction and relationships."
Read more @robertpjones #WhiteTooLong
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"The return of Columbus in 1493 also precipitated the culmination of one of the most fateful but unacknowledged theological developments in the history of the western Christian Church..."
Read more by @robertpjones in #WhiteTooLong.
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30% of Americans, including majorities of Republicans & white evangelical Protestants, agree that “America was intended by God to be a promised land where European Christians could set an example for the rest of the world.”
@robertpjones in #WhiteTooLong
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"White supremacy forms a consistent pattern in history, beginning with the targeting of Indigenous peoples."
Read @KirkusReviews on The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy by @robertpjones & pre-order below.
#WhiteTooLong.
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In his upcoming book, @robertpjones focuses on Emmett Till's murder in 1955, the lynching of 3 Black circus workers in 1920, & the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
Read @KirkusReviews on The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy #WhiteTooLong.
https://t.co/ozCLik02RD
Only 27% of white evangelical Protestants say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.
Overall, 64% of Americans support abortion legality in most/all cases vs. 34% say it should be illegal in most/all cases.
@robertpjones @thereidout #WhiteTooLong
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"In terms of its racial and religious composition, the Democratic Party looks like 20-year-old America, while the GOP looks like 80-year-old America."
@robertpjones w/ @JRubinBlogger #jenrubinsgreenroom. Read #WhiteTooLong below.
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Nearly 7 in 10 Fox News Republicans celebrated the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe.
But this perspective is shared by less than half (44%) of Mainstream News Republicans.
@robertpjones in #WhiteTooLong examines the impact of Fox News on culture wars.
https://t.co/R0QMD1FtBI.
All white Christian subgroups have declined across the last two decades. Notably, in the last 10 years, white evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest decline.
Follow @robertpjones on #WhiteTooLong Substack for more. https://t.co/I6y4v0Pbgm
"PRRI polling has documented a stunning wholesale abandonment of even the pretense of a political ethic of principle by white evangelical Protestants and other conservative white Christians." @robertpjones
#WhiteTooLong Substack
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Trump has had majority support from white evangelicals from 2016-2022, ranging from 61-74%.
White Christians currently account for about 7/10 Republicans, and 30% are white evangelical protestants.
@robertpjones, #WhiteTooLong
https://t.co/I6y4v0Pbgm.
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After the Unite the Right rally, Trump refused to denounce the white supremacists and suggested that it was the counter-protesters who were “very, very violent.”
In 2017, Trump’s favorability amg white evangelicals was 73%.
#WhiteTooLong @robertpjones
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For centuries, white Christians saw no conflict btw the killing & exile of Native Americans & the teachings of Jesus, slavery & Biblical mandates, segregation & church doctrine, or white supremacy & the demands of the gospel.
@robertpjones #WhiteTooLong
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The embrace of #ChristianNationalism by nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals and a majority of the Republican Party will spawn more theological monstrosities justifying anti-democratic schemes to achieve this end.
@robertpjones in #WhiteTooLong.
https://t.co/I6y4v0Pbgm
"In terms of its racial & religious composition, the Democratic Party looks like 20-year-old America, while the GOP looks like 80-year-old America."
New @robertpjones #WhiteTooLong Substack: The Desperate Turn to MAGA among Conservative White Christians
https://t.co/I6y4v0Pbgm
Conservative white Christians, given our dismal history on slavery and segregation, so easily use the words “woke” or “wokeness” pejoratively.
What's Driving the Objections to "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl? @robertpjones #WhiteTooLong.
https://t.co/BmQDKA8Ytr
Evangelical identity is correlated w/ holding Christian nationalist views across racial lines.
Adherents are nearly 7x as likely as rejecters to agree patriots might have to resort to violence to save the U.S. (40% vs. 16%).
@robertpjones #WhiteTooLong
https://t.co/z3QxJ6ICrS
A unique survey experiment revealed an estimated 17% of Americans agree with the statement that the U.S. is a white Christian nation, and I am willing to fight to keep it that way.
@robertpjones on @BrookingsInst/PRRI new survey in #WhiteTooLong.
https://t.co/VzD38dS27p
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