Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of numerous journal articles, he is a cofounder and frequent contributor to Religion in Public. Burge is also a pastor in the American Baptist Church.
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Many people take it for granted: Evangelicals are Republican, Democrats aren't religious, and moderate Christians may as well not exist. But it wasn't always this way. Those who grew up evangelical in the 1980s were just as likely to sit next to a Democra... SEE MORE