Ryan Burge, a pastor who sidegigs as a data-based writer, has a new piece trying to track down exactly who is losing religion. He runs through various age groups and finds nothing surprising. In general men are less churchy than women, but this gap is closing and even crossing over lately. Young women are now less churchy than young men. This is a new data point and might be an artifact.
Most ways of categorizing people show about the same percentage of NONES. Education and income and race have predictable but not dramatic deltas. Dems and independents are both about 40% churched, not much difference.
ALL Repooflicans are in church ALL THE TIME. Extreme outlier.
This might explain why the R media is focusing exclusively on woke shit, trying to pull in other church members. Traditionally the seven-second rule for R media was ZERO TAXES. Now the seven-second rule is TRANS BABIES.
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Irrelevant sidenote on sidegigs: When young, many of my friends were Preacher’s Kids. There was a sharp difference between mainline pastors and Protestant pastors. Mainline churches, no matter how many sat in the pews, had endowments, and could pay their pastors a fulltime salary. Protestants depended on contributions from members, so they couldn’t pay fulltime salaries. They usually provided a house, but the pastor always needed a sidegig. The ones I knew were door-to-door salesmen, which is a good reuse of evangelical skills.
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