Is it ignored because it is so obvious? Is it discounted because African Americans are at the center of it? Is our analysis complete if we do not to wonder how very similar strains of traditional Bible Christianity can produce such different outcomes? Does not the diversity of outcomes suggest an intellectual puzzle that must be solved? Do African Americans who are religiously conservative lean Democratic because they are black while white religious conservatives lean in the opposite direction because they are white?
If race is what really matters, is the conventional wisdom about Conservative Christian politics confounded? A lot of questions spring from one overlooked fact. Did white Conservative Protestants drift into the Republican Party after because their failing social and racial position indicated that they belonged there? Did both groups bring into their new political home many of the political styles they once had in common, especially in the South?
Is the politically conservative propensity of white Conservative Protestants at least in part a protest against their perceived loss of political power, a protest only marginally linked to their religious convictions? These questions are important and we must ask them, even if answers are not easy to find. History is a rough and somewhat contradictory guide.
Religion inspired abolitionists, black and white. Roosevelt sought black support, north and south. Might both blacks and whites bring their religious stories along with them as they change political places so that the same stories will correlate with opposed political reactions? Literal interpretation of the Bible and frequent religious practice push African Americans toward the Democrats and whites toward the Republicans see table 4. Literalism intensifies the diametrically opposed political orientations in the two groups; it pulls them further apart politically.
Religious practice also affects the direction of partisanship. The strongest Democrats in this tabulation are the African Americans in Afro-American denominations who read their Bible daily, followed closely by those who attend church weekly.
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