Christian nationalism becomes a measured category in U.S. survey research

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Survey researchers begin publishing standardized measures of Christian nationalist beliefs among Americans.

Survey researchers publish a standardized five-item scale classifying Americans as adherents, sympathizers, skeptics, or rejecters of Christian nationalist statements. PRRI and Brookings report that adherents and sympathizers together form a minority of U.S. adults — 10% and 19% respectively — but are concentrated among white evangelical Protestants, nearly two-thirds of whom qualify as sympathizers or adherents, and among Republicans, a majority of whom do.

What Is Not Established Here

This entry previously stated that the label “circulates in parallel across political commentary and social media, including on Telegram, Gab, and Twitter/X,” and carried entity links to those three platforms. Neither cited source mentions any platform. PRRI and Brookings measure survey opinion, not online circulation; the words “Telegram”, “Gab”, “Twitter” and “social media” appear nowhere in either the report page or the full PDF. The sentence and the three platform links have been removed rather than annotated. Research documenting Christian nationalist content on specific platforms exists, but none of it was cited here, and the claim as written — that the label circulated across those three platforms in particular — is not what that research measures.

Sources

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    Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution. A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture. (2023). Findings from the 2022-23 PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey of more than 6,000 U.S. adults. Introduces the adherent / sympathizer / skeptic / rejecter scale used here. The report's own framing of Christian nationalism as a threat is the authors' assessment, not a characterization adopted by this entry.

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    Public Religion Research Institute. Findings from the 2023 PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey. (2023). Full report PDF, including question wording and the five-item battery used to classify respondents. Read in full: the four groups are defined by score bands over the five statements, and the report gives adherents as 10% of Americans, sympathizers 19%, skeptics 39% and rejecters 29%.

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