Several polls this election season, including one by Pew, show that Donald Trump's support among white evangelicals is close to 80 percent; too often that number gets reported as "80 percent of [all] evangelicals support Trump." Data from PRRI shows that the share of older white evangelicals in this country is shrinking, while the non-white and younger generation of evangelicals is growing. But that trend is not true of evangelicals of color and a younger generation -- who define evangelical differently than older white evangelicals do. Still other white evangelical leaders and pastors have privately told me how "astonishing" it is to them that a majority of white evangelicals seem to be lining up behind Trump. Older, white "evangelicals" are clearly losing their share of the electorate and their political power, while the share of younger, non-white evangelicals is growing.

Source: Huffington Post October 07, 2016 16:18 UTC