The God Vote Gets Tricky

Published on October 30, 2004

Jeff Sharlet in The Dallas Morning News: “Red and blue states? Sorry, but it’s not that black and white.” “While there are indeed Republican states and Democratic states — ‘red’ and ‘blue’ — the spiritual geography of the nation is not so simply mapped. For the last three years I’ve been traveling America, talking to ordinary people about faith […]

Jeff Sharlet in The Dallas Morning News“Red and blue states? Sorry, but it’s not that black and white.” “While there are indeed Republican states and Democratic states — ‘red’ and ‘blue’ — the spiritual geography of the nation is not so simply mapped. For the last three years I’ve been traveling America, talking to ordinary people about faith and faithlessness and the vast territory in between. The only constant I’ve observed is that religious beliefs and political beliefs are not nearly so closely bound as pundits would have us believe. Take the ‘blue,’ Democratic state of New York…

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