Who votes for the Republican Party?

Who votes for the Republican Party?

Matthew Jones (Political Science Instructor) gives expert video advice on: What does the Republican Party stand for?; How did the Republican Party start?; How is the Republican Party changing? and more...

Obviously, one of it's biggest strengths, its strongest constituency are white evangelicals. Broadening that out a little bit, we find that the more religious you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. The less you go to church, the less religious you are, the more likely you are to vote for Democrats. And so that religious coalition, be that Catholics, even Orthodox Jews, Evangelicals, they tend to vote more for the Republican Party, and that's been a large part of its coalition. Also, obviously southern whites, the South, and really kind of rural whites. Working class whites tend to be part of that coalition, even though they tend to be in unions, they also tend to vote for that social conservativism. And then with that, you've got the Libertarians, who have their own thing of more small government, and the Wall Street, or the business crowd. And obviously, some of those aspects are in tension with each other. But those tend to be the people who we can clearly identify with tending to vote for the Republican Party.