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2014, Jones wrote, \u201cmay be the year that the underlying demographic trends finally exert enough force to make themselves felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was skeptical<\/a>, pointing out that turnout and intensity matter more than these numbers. (Religion News Service\u2019s Tobin Grant disputed<\/a> Jones\u2019 claim that white evangelicals are declining at all.)<\/p>\n

Last night, the Republican Senate candidates won in Arkansas (Tom Cotton defeating Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor), Georgia (Republican David Perdue defeating Democrat Michelle Nunn), Kentucky (incumbent Mitch McConnell handily defeating Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes), and North Carolina (Republican challenger Thom Tillis defeating incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan). In Louisiana, Democratic incumbent Mary Landreiu is headed for a run-off.<\/p>\n

Preliminary exit polling shows that if Jones is right about overall declining numbers of white Southern evangelicals, they nonetheless turned out in much higher percentages than in Jones\u2019 data, exerting an opposite force from the one Jones predicted.<\/p>\n

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