The politics of race and religion — in two pie charts

[rug]

Posted by Chris Cillizza on September 10, 2012 at 4:30 pm

Republicans are the party of white evangelicals. Democrats are the party of minorities and those without any traditional religious affiliation.

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When it comes to the religious affiliations of GOPers and GOP leaners, the largest bloc are white evangelical Protestants who comprise roughly one in every three Republicans (34 percent). Here’s the full GOP religious affiliation chart via Pew:



Now, for the Democrats. As expected, the party is more racially diverse. Sixty-one percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaners are white while 21 percent are black and 10 percent are Hispanic.

When it comes to religious affiliation, the biggest group of Democrats — roughly one in every four — identify as religiously unaffiliated. The next largest bloc are black Protestants who comprise 16 percent of all Democrats and Democratic leaners in Pew polling.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/10/the-politics-of-race-and-religion-in-two-pie-charts/

[get the red out]

1. Can't believe it

There are 11% religiously unaffiliated among Republicans. They'd better not tell! Republicans aren't tolerant of that "unaffiliated" stuff by GAWD.

[dmallind]

2. Well I think it would be more informative the other way round

But as is, and assuming the parties to be roughly the same size, it implies the following:

Being a Protestant makes you 41% more likely to be a Republican (55/39)
Being Christian (and not mixed race or Asian) makes you 31% more likely to be a Republican (76/58)
Having a minority religion (or being Mixed race or Asian) makes you 38% more likely to be a Democrat (18/13)
Having no religious affiliation makes you 2.18 times more likely to be a Democrat (24/11)

All of which seems pretty intuitively close to subjective experience.

[rexcat]

3. Please note that "other*"

includes members of smaller religious groups (e.g., Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and others) as well as Protestants and Catholics ...

There must be no atheists in either party but considering that it is a Pew Research study one could expect some bias.

on edit: of course it does say religious affiliation but to discard the non-believers is an interesting take.