{"id":5272,"date":"2021-05-30T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:58:04","slug":"its-not-just-young-white-liberals-who-are-leaving-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Compared to the U.S. population overall, nonreligious Americans are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1382320692855779328\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">younger<\/a>\u00a0and more\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1382320703215710208\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic-leaning<\/a>. But the number of Americans who aren\u2019t religious has surged in part because\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1376902562021060610\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">people in lots of demographic groups are disengaging from religion<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 many nones don\u2019t fit that young, liberal stereotype. The average age of a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1382320692855779328\" target=\"_blank\">none is 43<\/a>\u00a0(so plenty are older than that). About one-third of nones (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1382320697695944705\" target=\"_blank\">32 percent<\/a>) are people of color. More than\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/03\/929478378\/understanding-the-2020-electorate-ap-votecast-survey\" target=\"_blank\">a quarter<\/a>\u00a0of nones\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/exit-polls\/president\/national-results\" target=\"_blank\">voted for Trump in 2020<\/a>. And about\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanburge\/status\/1382476779940614144\" target=\"_blank\">70 percent<\/a>\u00a0don\u2019t have a four-year college degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/its-not-just-young-white-liberals-who-are-leaving-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/its-not-just-young-white-liberals-who-are-leaving-religion\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Compared to the U.S. population overall, nonreligious Americans are younger and more Democratic-leaning. But the number of Americans who aren\u2019t religious has surged in part because people in lots of demographic groups are disengaging from religion \u2014 many nones don\u2019t fit that young, liberal stereotype. The average age of a none is 43 (so plenty are older than that). About one-third of nones (32 percent) are people of color. More than a quarter of nones voted for Trump in 2020. And about 70 percent don\u2019t have a four-year college degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[626,59,57],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-demographics","tag-leaving-religion","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}