Libertarians in the mainline
Last week while I was away, Tobin Grant linked to something interesting: new research, based on 40 years of General Social Surveys, that echoes Grant's own parsing of Pew's Religious Landscapes Survey. In general:
- White evangelicals are socially and economically conservative
- Members of black churches are socially conservative and economically liberal
- Mainline Protestants are socially liberal and economically conservative
From a mainliner's perspective, the first takeaway here is that our people mostly map onto the "libertarian" quadrant of this graph:
