Black Fundamentalists by Daniel R. Bare5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But even more recently, Pew counted 29% of the white adult population in this country as evangelical, with almost all of the growth since 2016 (when that figure was 25%) coming among Trump voters who had recently started using the term to describe themselves. Earlier this year, PRRI reported that only 14.5% of white Protestants in this country Americans identified themselves as evangelical, down from 23% in 2006. Organizations like Pew Research Center and the Public Religion Research Institute use “evangelical” purely in terms of self-identification… and come to differing conclusions. I started with two different ways of counting evangelicals that suggest different ways the word “evangelical” is used: as a means of identifying oneself and as a means of describing others. ![]()
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