Does hearing about the "Catholic vote" annoy you?

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The implications are silly, but the term can be used as a useful shorthand in certain places.

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Catholics in Bavaria and Catholics in Scotland have very different voting behaviour.

I like that this is a massive understatement even though the word 'very' was used.

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I suspect that the exact number is impossible to ascertain and that any figures bandied around will come from surveys. There are serious, serious, serious problems with surveys into voting patterns in general, and additional problems with the sort of social surveys done in the 1950s and 1960s...