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The Numbers Show the Catholic Vote Still Matters, by George J. Marlin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Numbers Show the Catholic Vote Still Matters, by George J. Marlin

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“The American River Ganges” by Thomas Nast, 1875 [Harper’s Weekly]. One of Thomas Nast’s most famous nativist cartoons depicts Roman Catholic clergy as crocodiles invading America’s shores, threatening the nation’s schoolchildren. Things have changed.

By George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing, December 7, 2024

George J. Marlin, Chairman of the Board of Aid to the Church in Need USA, is the author of The American Catholic Voter and Sons of St. Patrick, written with Brad Miner. His most recent book is Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man.

Note: Everyone knows that Catholics supported the president-elect in surprising numbers. But today, George Marlin, drawing on information from one of the Trump pollsters, makes clear just how surprising a turn it is, especially among Hispanics. Most analysts have expected that Hispanics would remain faithful to the Democrats, but it seems they are more faithful to basic realities like work, family, faith, and much more. It remains to be seen whether that support will translate into actual changes in the country. But it’s encouraging. And it’s on hopes like these that this site stays at its tasks. We’re getting late into this fundraising campaign and still have a way to go. So, the time to make your contribution to this work is now. The world won’t wait. And neither can we. It’s easy – and did I say tax-deductible? Just click the button. – Robert Royal

My book, The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact, was published twenty years ago. That work tells the story of European Catholics who arrived on America’s shores in the 1800s and early 1900s with only the clothes on their backs, worked through their parishes and neighborhoods to overcome nativist bigotry, and became a significant voice in local, state, and national politics.

For most of the 20th century, those white ethnics were an important voting bloc in the Democratic Party. But in the post-Vatican II culture wars, they flocked into the arms of Republicans Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. …

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