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exvangelicals are 82 percent white, 13 percent Black, and 2 percent Hispanic. Most remarkably, they are 65 percent female and only 35 percent male. Their average age right now is 54 years old (1969 birth year), and on average they dechurched twenty years ago (2003).

there could be a million affluent and upwardly mobile Black men out there who, like Jeremiah, have left evangelical churches. These men are by far the most educated and affluent of any of the dechurched categories, not just among evangelicals, but of any religious tradition.

98 percent of cultural Christians were white, 91 percent of dechurched mainstream evangelicals were white, 82 percent of exvangelicals4 were white, and 0 percent of dechurched BIPOC5 were white (we selected the name for

CMEs are more politically conservative in our survey, with 45 percent identifying as Republican or strong Republican versus 31 percent for DMEs, who tend to lean more center-right. There are slightly more female DMEs (61%) than ones who are churched (56%). The center-right versus conservative difference holds true with policy as well (see fig. 4.1)

They had the highest percentage (54%) of members who believe “racial

Twenty-one percent of those who identify as Republican, 23 percent of those who identify as Independent, and 29 percent of those who identify as Democrat and used to go to church have stopped.

Churches under 100 people comprise 69 percent of all churches. However, 70 percent of all US church attenders go to churches that have 250 or more people.

In our survey, they are 76 percent Black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, and 4 percent other. They are 68 percent male and 32 percent female. Their average age at the time of this study was 52 years old (1971 birth year) and on average they dechurched twenty-five years ago (1998).

numbers rise 50 percent over the last three decades.