Who are the Republican Social-Issue Voters?
White evangelical Protestants make up 37% of all Republican voters but constitute a majority (55%) of Republican social-issue voters. Many fewer are white mainline Protestants (13%) or white non-Hispanic Catholics (14%). Seven-in-ten of these social-issue voters attend religious services at least once a week, which is nearly double the rate of other Republican and Republican-leaning voters (39%). Compared with all Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters, Republican social-issue voters possess lower levels of education and are less affluent. Roughly half of all Republican social-issue voters say they are working class, compared with 38% among other Republican voters. More than half of social-issue voters (52%) are women, 10 points higher than among other Republican voters (42%). Politically, social-issue voters also are strikingly different from other Republicans. More than half (54%) describe themselves as “strong Republicans,” compared with fewer than one third (32%) of ot
