White and Christian?

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White and Christian?

Then you're far, far likelier to be a Republican than a Democrat.

Or to put the point another way: white Christians own the Republican party and what it has become under Donald Trump.

Ryan Burge (who was raised Southern Baptist) brings the goods to demonstrate this statistically and to explain how it has happened.

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https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/white-americas-republican-drift

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Big hint about how it has happened:

Race. As Burge says, the move of white Christian voters to the Republican party after the Democrats promoted civil rights legislation is "deeply intertwined with race."

White Christians who vote Republican love to pretend it's all about abortion, but it's not. It's about race.

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Racial animosity is the rotten foundation on which it's all built, and the foundation Trump knew from the outset of his determination to become president he could adroitly exploit.

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@wdlindsy

The fossil fuel interests funding Trump's fascist movement have known for over a century that America's biggest national security vulnerability was bigotry.

Putin's Russian Internet Research Agency knew exactly what pressure points to target with Manafort's polling data. Putin is a petrostate despot.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-says-russia-was-given-trump-campaign-polling-data-in-2016

Mike Johnson's patron oligarch, Konstantin Nikolaev, knew that the NRA's bigotry would open doors for fossil fuel funded fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/maria-butina-nra-svetlana-nikolaeva-konstantin-nikolaev

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The Heritage Foundation uses bigotry to dismantle the EU & Brexit.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/right-wing-push-to-dismantle-the-eu-heritage-foundations-private-workshop/

And now, the globe faces a new foe, petrostate despots funding new forms of bigotry & propaganda for fossil fuel fascism.

Ai automates the hate mongering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2021/05/06/racism-is-systemic-in-artificial-intelligence-systems-too/

https://www.bluesquarealliance.org/command-center-insights/the-ai-propaganda-on-social-media/

Divide & Conquer tactics have always used bigotry.