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Originally Posted by RainMaker
The socially-conservative thing is probably spot-on. I'd link it to religion too. I know for instance that you have to be at church on Sunday if you want to be elected by the black community in Chicago. What church you belong to matters a lot.
Obama's decision to attend Trinity for instance was more about politics at the time than anything else. It was how you made connections in the community.
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Follow-up on this. CNN has exit polling broken down by frequency of attending religious services. In every state I checked, Biden won landslide numbers (as in he typically got over 50%, with no one else even getting 20%) among those who attend weekly services, and Bernie won less handily, though still decisively, among those who said they never attend.
Another interesting thing I just saw that MAY lend more credence to the thought that more disaffected Rs voted in the D primary than I would have guessed:
40% of Biden voters in VA said they would NOT "vote blue no matter who."