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“the Internet serves as a conduit through which dissident religious voices are both
empowered and amplified, a fact that is lessening the influence of the old guard evangelicals by
bringing to the fore new and previously neglected theological agendas

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In the US, one in five people who identify as Catholics and one in four Protestants seldom or never attend organised services, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre.

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Social media has lead to new ways for news to spread and simultaneously declined Christian influence and authority in society.

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Claim: Social media has lead to a decline of evangelical authority because of new methods to communicate

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Samuel L Perry, sociologist at the University of Oklahoma

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Samuel L Perry, sociologist at the University of Oklahoma

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Though for other issues like racism, policing, gun control, or the military, Christian nationalism likely works through authoritarian and boundary‐defending mechanisms

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Samuel L Perry, sociologist at the University of Oklahoma

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Samuel L Perry, sociologist at the University of Oklahoma

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white evangelicals (roughly 75–80 percent of whom are friendly to Christian nationalist views; were more likely to report being religiously offended by evening news and Cable news shows, and that much of this offense was mediated by evangelicals’ Biblical literalism, religious exclusivism, attendance, and political conservatism.

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A similar share of white evangelical Protestants (66%) say there is at least some conflict between their own religious beliefs and mainstream American culture

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83% of people in 2020 election lean toward the Republican party 

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White evangelical protestants overwhelmingly feel that the Trump administration has helped rather than hurt the interests of evangelical Christians (59%)

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Claim: What social divide/issues caused evangelicals to become so heavily associated with the Republican Party and how has this subsequently affected US politics?

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Churches turning their backs towards African Americans which lead to evangelicals.

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Laura Jane Gifford, professor at Washington University of St. Louis

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Laura Jane Gifford, professor at Washington University of St. Louis

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Feminism, racism, and homosexuality are things that have brought evangelicals together and these social differing topics guided them towards their political affiliation.

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John Fea, a historian and professor at the Messiah College

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John Fea, a historian and professor at the Messiah College

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How it became associated with the Republican party.

One shift to lead evangelicals towards the Republican party was the modern civil rights and black freedom struggle. This created resentment and white evangelical leaders argued that the government was invading local autonomy and turning its back on whites.

Nixon capitalized on it and employed a southern strategy to bring in white evangelicals which started the process of almost exclusively identifying with the Republican party.

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Seth Dowland, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University. 

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Seth Dowland, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University. 

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first context and later connects to how it became affiliated with Republicans.
American evangelicalism emerged in the transatlantic movement of the mid-18th century which spurred huge camp meetings on the frontier in the early 19th century leading to massive growth among Methodists and Baptists.

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Claim: How did the evangelicals become associated with the Republican party

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RQ + Thesis

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81% of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election and are the most reliable of Republican voters

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Evangelicals are Christians who focus on the importance of conversion, support activism and missionary efforts to spread the gospel, display a high regard for biblical authority and stress the centrality of the cross.

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Explain the definition of evangelicals and their importance in Republican politics by alluding to Trump's election.

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To what extent has evangelical Christianity’s affiliation with the Republican party influenced politics in the US?