Religious groups and their political leanings

[King of Kensington]

No surprise really - Mormons are about 70% Republican while the most Democratic groups are historically African American congregations and Unitarians.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/

Probably most notable is the Democratic lean of once reliably Republican mainline groups, Episcopalians and Congregationalists.

[King of Kensington]

I always wish these surveys would break apart cultural Catholics and practicing Catholics.

Agreed. This works on two levels:

1) Catholics don't completely apostatize like Protestants tend to, so you get a lot more irreligious in all but name type identifying with the Catholic church.

2) People who specifically identify as "Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod" or something specific like that are probably going to be more religious, knowledgeable etc, than a generic "Catholic". The specific denomination name serves as a way of splitting out more religious people in a way you can't really do with Catholicism.

It would be interesting to see various Protestant denominations in Canada, the UK, Australia.

[King of Kensington]

CanadaTories got something like 55% of Protestants in 2011, so I would guess that even the United Church has a bit of a Tory lean and that Evangelicals vote something like 75-80% Tory. Some possible exceptions would be the Salvation Army (mostly in Newfoundland), and maybe Pentecostals.

Yeah, although the United Church has an "ultra-liberal" image I don't think its membership - which seems to be made up of largely small-town WASPs - is that left-wing really.  Although there's a visible, urban, educated "Social Gospel" wing.  

Anglicans I would guess are pretty similar, even though they're a bit more conservative than UCC.  But I think they're a bit more overrepresented - or at least were - among the old WASP elite and a little less Social Gospel-y.

In Canada, Baptists are so well represeted in the Maritimes, I wonder if they lean Liberal or if they're still Conservative and their votes are just outweighed by everyone else.

As for the UK, there's a saying that the Labour Party was more influenced by Methodism than by Marx.  Though wasn't Margaret Thatcher also a Methodist?  Furthermore, I believe the Methodists in the UK are more socially conservative than the Church of England (unlike the situation in Canada with UCC/Anglicans) and their numbers have really really declined.

ETA:  Back in the 19th and early 20th century, so-called Nonconformists supported the Liberals. 

[King of Kensington]

Wow, that's really interesting!!  Not so much that rich evangelicals are staunchly Republican but that poorer ones are that split.  How did you get that deep in the data??  I would love to look at the income numbers for other religions, but I can't seem to figure out how, LOL.

Isn't there a sizable minority of Hispanics that are evangelical?

ETA:  Yes, and they lean Democratic.

http://www.pewforum.org/2014/05/07/the-shifting-religious-identity-of-latinos-in-the-united-states/

[King of Kensington]

Adventists are heavily Black.