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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Is the problem the fact that the left has dismissed religion outright based on one issue? (abortion). And thus dismissed along with it all the good things that religion has?
Because religion isn't a race issue correct? I think more Blacks in the US believe in God than Whites.
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I think it's more than abortion. The Democratic Party in the U.S. has more or less abandoned its working-class roots, and its public face, at least, is now the university educated coastal elites. Those people are not very religious. But it's probably not a coincidence that the population that has seen the most dramatic reduction in traditional religiosity - the young, progressive, and university educated - is also the population that has taken most enthusiastically to identarian social justice, which fills many of the same social functions.
Those coastal progressives have to be careful not to let their echo-chambers fool them into thinking everyone on the left is as contemptuous of conventional religion as they are. As you point out, Black Americans and Hispanics are notably more religious than white Americans on average. Catholics were long one of the core components of the Democrat coalition, but Trump turned that around in the last election and won the Catholic vote.