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2019 survey: 86% of white evangelical Protestants & 70% of white mainline Protestants and white Catholics said that the âConfederate flag is more a symbol of Southern pride than of racism.â https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/american-christianitys-white-supremacy-problem
More than 6/10 white Christians disagreed with the statement: âGenerations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.â
Robert P. Jones, head of nonpartisan polling and research organization Public Religion Research Institute uses this & other data to lay out a startling case: âThe more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.â
âIf you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, youâd likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop."
According to exit polls, 81% of white evangelical Protestants voted for Trump. Sizable majorities of white Catholics (64%) and white mainline Protestants (57%) also backed him.
The Southern Baptist Convention formed in the aftermath of the Baptistsâ schism over slavery. https://twitter.com/CathyReisenwitz/status/1341522173387702272
In surveys measuring how warmly people say they feel about Black people, white evangelical Protestants' sentiments exceed the gen pop. Yet the vast majority of white Christians are indifferent to the symbols of white supremacy and skeptical of the realities of racial inequality.
^ This right here is why the white people definition of "racism" as animosity toward racialized people is woefully complete. Racism is a system and needs to be understood as such.
"White evangelicalsâ understanding of the race problem tends to be rooted in beliefs about individual decisions and shortcomings rather than the ways that broader social forces, institutions, and culture can constrain and shape them." BINGO.
âChristian nationalismâ was a better predictor of Trump support in 2016 than economic discontent, religious affiliation, sexism, or any other variables. Its defining is the preservation of a social order threatened by people of color, immigrants, and Muslims.
Christian nationalism is not personal religiosity. Church attendance, prayer, & Scripture reading tends to improve attitudes on race. The white churchâs problem may not be âChristianity proper,â as Douglass put it, so much as the culture around white Christianity.
