New research on #ChristianNationalism from us @PRRIpoll! A brief 🧵 of the findings
Roughly 3 in ten Americans adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalist beliefs
This is based on a new measure we developed to identify people who believe in Christian nationalism by assessing their agreement with these five statements and sorting them into one of the four groups above:
We find that Christian nationalist beliefs are overwhelming among two key groups: white evangelical Protestants, and Republicans:
Separate from the attitudes used to create the scale, we see a massive preference for the US as a Christian nation among CN adherents:
White CN adherents in particular have some pretty radical views on systemic racism and racial justice:
CN adherents are almost SEVEN TIMES more likely than rejecters to say Americans may need to resort to violence to save their vision of the country:
You can check out the full report here: prri.org/research/a-chr…
Or for some more discussion of the findings, check out the fantastic @BrookingsInst presentation and panel discussion feat @kkdumez @JemarTisby @EJDionne @robertpjones @Peter_Wehner
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