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In this November 2016 photo, voters fill our their ballots at a polling place inside Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati.

In this November 2016 photo, voters fill our their ballots at a polling place inside Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati.

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Partisanship drives religious attitudes and not the other way around

Which comes first — religion or politics? On the one hand, political scientists have long held that people’s political choices are formed by their childhood faith, which, for the most part, sticks with them. On the other, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, a thrice-married adulterer who rarely attends church.