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> The people who believe this vote at a much higher rate than the people who don't I noticed as I read that statement my first instinct was to blindly agree wi

> The people who believe this vote at a much higher rate than the people who don't I noticed as I read that statement my first instinct was to blindly agree with you, because it feels like it might be true (from inside my bubble). But on second thought, do we actually have voting stats to back up this idea, or is it more of the phenomenon that the minority opinions making the most noise seem to be more numerous than the population who generally keep to themselves?

freehunter 7y ago
"white Evangelicals were an identical 26 percent of the electorate in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018" [1] even though they're only 15% of the population [2]. That number is dropping sharply as younger generations are less likely to be part of an Evangelical church. Millennials and Gen Z are the biggest voting bloc at 27% of the population, but only represent 20% of the votes cast [3]. [1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/in-midterms-white-evangelicals-stood-up-for-their-party.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/in-midterms-white-eva... [2] https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18070630/white-evangelicals-turnout-midterms-trump-2020 https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18070630/white-evangelicals-tu... [3] https://medium.com/s/youthnow/ruined-entire-generation-of-young-voters-gen-z-politics-democracy-140d9ead1fa2 https://medium.com/s/youthnow/ruined-entire-generation-of-yo...