White Protestants shift toward state favoritism as they perceive losing religious market share

Evidence

Specifically, Gill (1998, 2008) outlines how church-state relations are premised on the structure of religious markets and that religious actors will attempt to gain state favoritism when threatened by religious competitors. In the American case, white Protestants rhetorically supported a free religious economy and national inclusiveness when their dominance of American culture was secured by historical conditions. But in light of demographic changes and widespread church disaffiliation, white Protestants have begun to feel that they are losing their market share and now seek special protections and favoritism from the state. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 228

Categorization

• XREF: This is a supply-side/religious-economies mechanism for the embrace of Christian statism — ties to the reader’s question about whether CN is a distinct schema or proxy for conservatism: Religious Economies Theory offers a mechanism, not just correlational collinearity. — connects to: Majority-status loss prompted white conservative Christians to seek state religious favoritism — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 43; White Protestants seek state favoritism as their dominance erodes. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 228; Minority-status threat shifts white Protestants toward Christian Statism. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 229 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• White Protestants seek state favoritism as their dominance erodes. #corroborates (0.95) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 228
• Minority-status threat shifts white Protestants toward Christian Statism. #expands (0.88) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 229
• White Protestant establishment support arose as their demographic majority slipped #exemplifies (0.85) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 43
• Perceived white Christian persecution drives opposition to voter access #exemplifies (0.78) — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 48
• Jewish poverty in a new immigrant wave intensified White Protestant nativism #exemplifies (0.74)