Recent Gallup data confirm a significant and growing relationship between religiosity and partisan identity in the U.S.

Everything else being equal, the more religious the individual in the U.S. today, the higher the probability that the individual identifies with or leans toward the Republican party. I called this the “R and R rule” in my 2012 book on religion, found the phenomenon alive and well in my 2014 review of Gallup data, and now, nine years later, Gallup’s data confirm that this religiosity gap is more evident than ever.

Americans’ political identity is a powerful correlate of a wide range of Americans’ attitudes and behaviors, including, in particular, a wide range of attitudes about hot-button political and social issues. And we know that political identity is related to views of the national economy, views of the nation’s institutions, happiness, perceptions of the nation’s most important problems, and a variety of other measures. It is thus not surprising that political identity would also be related to religion.

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  • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 years ago

    This is a very interesting phenomenon that I wrote about already in the context or relation to the rise of the Third Reich. I am extremely concerned that this same pattern is repeating itself again in the United States. What appears to be a perfect storm of social, religious, economic, and political circumstances are brewing here that mirror the hostile insurrection of Nazism in Germany.

    See this comment below where I discussed the similarities: https://lemmy.world/comment/2264852

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 years ago

      Do remember that there was a lot of sympathy for fascism in America, but the fascists never got in charge, not even when it looked like Germany might get the upper hand in the early days of the war, despite the 1940 election.