On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> A conversation with a friend and political comrade the other evening
> reminded me of a past exchange on this list:
>
> HER: I think most evangelicals hate brown people.
> ME: Excuse me? Just who the bloody hell do you think attends the huge
> evangelical church around the corner in our overwhelmingly Hispanic
> neighborhood?
> HER: Well, those aren't really the people I mean when I say
> "evangelicals."
>
> Good God almighty.
The pollster's classification would be "white evangelical Protestants," and they do tend to be pretty right-wing. The "white" part makes a big difference.
Doug