Catholic Voting
Here's an interesting statistic from a Los Angeles Times article entitled "God Help the Democrats:"
In 2000, for the first time, white Catholics gave a larger share of their votes to a Republican presidential candidate than did white mainline Protestants.
In my humble analysis, I would say that in the boom times of the 1990s, the ecomomic issues traditionally championed by both Catholics and most Democrats lost in significance to the social and cultural issues traditionally championed by Catholics and most post-1960s Republicans.
I would also advise caution and some critical reading into the word "mainline" used to describe Protestants. "Mainline" Protestants are generally not of the Evangelical persuassion, but are mostly liberal-leaning, upper-income surburbanites.
Not relevant to the above but worthy of mention anyway, the article begins like this:
Millions of Americans do not believe in God. They do not invest moral authority in a transcendent source such as the Bible, or deal in absolutes of right and wrong, or divide the world into simplistic categories of good and evil.
The author proudly includes himself in the above group. I categorically do not.
Here's an interesting statistic from a Los Angeles Times article entitled "God Help the Democrats:"
In 2000, for the first time, white Catholics gave a larger share of their votes to a Republican presidential candidate than did white mainline Protestants.
In my humble analysis, I would say that in the boom times of the 1990s, the ecomomic issues traditionally championed by both Catholics and most Democrats lost in significance to the social and cultural issues traditionally championed by Catholics and most post-1960s Republicans.
I would also advise caution and some critical reading into the word "mainline" used to describe Protestants. "Mainline" Protestants are generally not of the Evangelical persuassion, but are mostly liberal-leaning, upper-income surburbanites.
Not relevant to the above but worthy of mention anyway, the article begins like this:
Millions of Americans do not believe in God. They do not invest moral authority in a transcendent source such as the Bible, or deal in absolutes of right and wrong, or divide the world into simplistic categories of good and evil.
The author proudly includes himself in the above group. I categorically do not.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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