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The Jan. 6 insurrection was fueled by the merged beliefs of White evangelicals, White supremacists, and extremists historian Robert P. Jones, author of ‘White Too Long,’ tells Joy Reid.July 10, 2021
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Even as the number of white evangelicals has shrunk to just 14% of Americans, they remain prominent in the Republican Party. Chris Seward/AP
Two dramatic trends that for years have defined the shifting landscape of religion in America a shrinking white Christian majority, alongside the rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans have stabilized, according to a new, massive survey of American religious practice.
What was once a supermajority of white Christians more than 80% of Americans identified as such in 1976, and two-thirds in 1996 has now plateaued at about 44%, according to the new survey, which was conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute. That number first dipped below 50% in 2012.
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