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America the secular? What a changing religious landscape means for US politics

  • Written by David Campbell, Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
imageConventional wisdom about nonreligious Americans' voting misses some important distinctions.Sarah Rice/Getty Images

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has stood at about 29%,...

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