White Catholics and mainline Protestants joined evangelicals in majority-supporting Trump in 2016.

Evidence

Through it all, Trump has retained the support of white Christians. While much has been made of the strong support of white evangelical Protestants for Trump (81 percent, according to the exit polls in 2016), a Pew Research Center postelection analysis based on validated voters found that strong majorities of white Catholics (64 percent) and white mainline Protestants (57 percent) also cast their votes for Trump. By contrast, fully 96 percent of African American Protestants and 62 percent of white religiously unaffiliated voters cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 52

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Christians supported Trump despite his apparent moral violations — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 18; 81 percent of white evangelical voters elected Trump in 2016 — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 600

Broader Connections

• 81 percent of white evangelical voters elected Trump in 2016 #corroborates (0.95) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 600