Survey: Trump Voters ‘Anti-Islam, Anti-Feminist, Anti-Globalist’ | Sojourners

Survey: Trump Voters ‘Anti-Islam, Anti-Feminist, Anti-Globalist’

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Almost three-quarters of Trump voters said Islam is a threat, compared with 18 percent of those who voted for Hillary Clinton. An even higher percentage — 81 percent — of Trump voters strongly agreed that Middle East refugees are a terror threat, compared with 12 percent of Clinton voters.

“Today, divisions in the American public are stark,” said Paul Froese, a Baylor University sociology professor and director of Baylor Religion Surveys. “We can trace many of our deep differences to how people understand traditional morality, theology, and the purpose of our nation.”

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