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July 25, 2012

Deseret News: White evangelical Christians tend to be more Republican than Asian Christians, Pew study finds

by Alicia Purdy
Deseret News

Asian-American evangelicals are mostly Republican and more likely to be Republican than other Asian-Americans, but less likely than white evangelicals to be Republican, according to a new report by Pew Research Center. The difference may have to do with different ideas about the role of government.

Forty-two percent of the sample of 1,599 Asian-Americans identified themselves as Christian and, of those, 40 percent said they were "born-again" or evangelical Christian.

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