A new poll found that the political affiliation of churchgoers was divided along racial lines.
The poll from the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution found that churchgoing positively correlated with support for former President Donald Trump among white churchgoers, while the opposite was true for black churchgoers.
The poll found that 76% of whites who attend church weekly support Trump; this declines to 64% who do as much monthly or a few times a year, then 43% for those who seldom or never attend church. Among black churchgoers, 85% who attend church weekly support Vice President Kamala Harris, 82% who attend monthly or a few times a year support Harris, and 76% who seldom or never attend Church support her.
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White Evangelical Protestants are Trump’s largest backers with 81% supporting him, followed by white Catholics, 61%, then white mainline/non-Evangelical Protestants, 60%.
Harris’s biggest backers are black Protestants, 83%, religiously unaffiliated people, 70%, and Hispanic Catholics, 61%.
While Hispanic Catholics largely support Harris, Hispanic Christians of all types that attend church weekly swing to Trump, with 55% supporting him over 41% supporting Harris.
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The poll found several areas of overlap between white and Hispanic Protestants, the majority of both support Trump.
The exodus of Christian Hispanics away from Catholicism toward Protestantism could help explain Trump’s increasing standing with Hispanics. Half of Hispanics are expected to be Protestant by 2030, a demographic that was once almost uniformly Catholic.
