Are Nonreligious Dems a Counterweight to the Evangelical Right?

The New York Times's Thomas Edsall raised an interesting point in a column published last week: The extent to which the electorate was growing more liberal was itself bad news for President Trump's reelection bid. Buried in that article was a bit of data that, by itself, speaks to a broad shift in American culture — and probably its politics.

Eastern Illinois University's Ryan Burge looked at data released last month as part of the General Social Survey and determined that the number of people who identify as evangelical Protestants was about equal to the number who say they are members of no religious faith. Those numbers were about equivalent to the percentage of identified Catholics.