One big difference in their priorities when voting is environmental protection.Della wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:46 pmHow so?Slimshandy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:43 pmThe white ones means the white people… the white evangelicals.mommy_jules wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:35 pm
I realize that this post is about white evangelicals. I asked because you wrote the highlighted portion. It’s confusing. Were we/you suddenly talking about a different group? Was one of the hypothetical people from West Hollywood or Alabama a different race/ethnicity, because that does change things as well. Also, I’m very much aware of the different beliefs and denominations of evangelicals (I stated as much in my post to OP), and that is precisely why I asked if the Presbyterians were from the same denomination.
I did make a distinction because not all Presbyterians are white.
Yes, the Presbyterians in my example are the same denominations. I’ve attended Presbyterian churches in both states, the people in both churches have different priorities.
In places like California, the environmental protection laws are extremely needed. The land would be ravaged without them and the air would be unbreathable. The animals live in filth and need people to stick up for them.
In places like Arkansas, many of those laws only hinder businesses that are typically much smaller (business wise, not land holdings) than farms in California, the animals can be grazing on open fields of grass instead of kept in small cages and fed only hay. The air is clean because there aren’t the same amount of humans grouped together in the same square mile, there isn’t an overflow of trash because there isn’t the same amount of people making the trash…
So in Arkansas, regardless of being a white evangelical, they don’t vote for more environmental protections, they vote for less.
In California, regardless of being a white evangelical, they vote for more environmental protections that are sometimes federally aimed.