Though the percentage of Americans who identify with evangelical Protestant denominations has ticked downward, the absolute number of evangelicals appears to be rising as the overall U.
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At the same time, more and more Americans were reporting to pollsters that they had no particular religious affiliation. The last year on record in which Protestants as a whole—not just white Protestants—represented a majority of the country was in By , if current trends continue, religiously unaffiliated Americans could comprise as large a percentage of the population as Protestants—which would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago.
As recently as , 51 percent of Americans identified as white Protestants, but that percentage dropped to 32 percent by Meanwhile, the number of black Protestants remained steady at around one in 10 Americans, while Hispanic Protestants gained strength, making up 4 percent of Americans by Looking still closer, it is clear that the downward trajectory of white Protestants has been due to declines among both mainline and evangelical Protestants.
The mainline denominations have been losing members by the thousands for decades. Many of these churches have become so theologically inclusive, politically liberal, and doctrinally confused that there is no compelling reason for anyone to join anyway.
But beginning in , white evangelical Protestant numbers began to falter as well. White evangelical Protestants comprised 22 percent of the population in and still commanded 21 percent of the population in , but their share of religious America has now slipped to 18 percent. A comparison of the current affiliation patterns of the oldest and youngest Americans, for example, reveals that white evangelicals have actually lost more ground than white mainline Protestants across current generations.
White evangelical Protestants constitute 27 percent of seniors age 65 and older, but only 10 percent of Americans under 30 years of age—a loss of nearly two-thirds from the oldest to the youngest generation of adults. By contrast, white mainline Protestants—who saw a reduction in their numbers two decades before evangelical numbers began to dip—account for 20 percent of seniors but 10 percent of younger Americans.
This still represents a 50 percent decline in market share across generations, but it is less steep than the evangelical decline. As a result of both lower birth rates among whites and the loss of younger members to disaffiliation, the median age among white Protestants overall has risen by seven years since These numbers point to one undeniable conclusion: white Protestant Christians—both mainline and evangelical—are aging and quickly losing ground as a proportion of the population.
While these transformations are most pronounced in the general population, they can also be seen—albeit in a delayed fashion—among voters in national elections. The stair-step downward trajectory of white Christian presence in the electorate over the last three decades is stunningly clear.
In , when Bill Clinton was elected to his first term as president, nearly three quarters of the electorate was white and Christian. White Christians will likely make up 55 percent of voters in and drop to 52 percent of voters by the following presidential campaign in If current trends hold steady, will be a watershed year—the first American election in which white Christians do not constitute a majority of voters.
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