In the lead-up to the 2018 midterms, several prominent media accounts reported on the connection between evangelicals and the Republican Party. Given the important role that evangelicals play in the Republican base — they make up about 20 percent of the US population and consistently have given 70 to 80 percent of their votes to Republican presidential candidates — it is important to understand the evangelical-Republican relationship thoroughly.
Observers have paid special attention to young evangelicals as they look for cracks in the electoral juggernaut. Our research provides important context and qualifiers that together suggest the relationship between evangelicals and the Republican Party isn’t much different than it has been over the past three or four decades, except in one important respect. CONT.
Jeremy Castle, Ryan P. Burge & Paul A. Djupe, Mischiefs of Faction