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A few data points: In 1960, about 89 percent of Americans—or about 158 million people—were white. Just over 10 percent (about 18 million people)

exvangelicals have the lowest income and education of all the groups we surveyed.

Overall, America’s blue zone is wealthier, healthier, more educated, more professional, more mobile, more economically unequal, and more ethnically diverse. America’s red zone is more churchgoing, more neighborly, more charitable, more family oriented, more rooted, more violent, less bureaucratic, and less taxed. Surveys indicate that Americans

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.

Presbyterians lead the dechurching, losing about 45 percent of their attenders over the last twenty-five years. This is largely due to dechurching in the mainline Presbyterian Church (PCUSA).