Janelle Wong, \u201cWe Are All Evangelicals Now\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Evangelicals embody U.S. racial attitudes on steroids. \u2026<\/p>\n The bottom line is that the racial divides and racial anxieties we see in evangelical America are not so different from the views of white Americans more generally. I speculate that these attitudes are more extreme than those of other white Americans because their fears of demographic change are even more exaggerated than other whites. A narrative of religious persecution runs deep in white evangelical theological circles. Believers expect to be attacked for their religious commitments. Hence, their defenses may be easily raised by \u201cthe War on Christmas.\u201d Narratives of persecution have primed them to expect a broad cultural assault, despite the fact that white Christians face the least religious persecution of any religious group in the United States. These fears of religious persecution, unfounded or not, interact in an especially potent way with fears of racial embattlement to produce the political conservatism detailed above. That being said, the racial patterns we observe among evangelicals are more intense, but consistent with the racial patterns that define the country as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Terese Marie Mailhot, \u201cWhy the Video of Those Catholic Boys Felt So Shameful\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The young man\u2019s\u00a0non-apology\u00a0did not mention how his behavior toward an elder had shamed his family.<\/p>\n That says a lot about the culture among kids who wear the MAGA hat. My son, who wears a \u201cMake America Native Again\u201d hat, would never\u00a0have\u00a0stood before an elder with such impudence because he would have known what shame it would bring on his family \u2014 and on generations of people who have taken care of each other with pride and respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rev. William Barber, Remarks at Martin Luther King Celebration, Nashville, Tenn<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vnHxPOEnu28<\/p>\n