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Are ‘Real’ Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals? Still no.

Exclude from home pageCurated Content  |  October 27, 2026

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I know I have written this before, but my “perch” in the discourse is a very odd one. When I post a graph on social media, I can get hundreds of comments. A lot of them on Twitter are just anonymous weirdos. I try not to read too many of them, but I actually do find some of them kind of valuable because they can offer me insights into how random people on the internet understand my corner of the world. So, this post was inspired by a comment I got on Twitter a couple of months ago after I posted a graph of Catholics’ political ideology over the last fifty years. The upshot was simple: the Democrat and Republican lines crossed just recently.

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