CSC: Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Political Conservatism in an Era of Demographic Change

Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EST
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D

We would like to invite you to our colloquium "Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Political Conservatism in an Era of Demographic Change" by Janelle Wong,Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. 

Below is a summary of her talk:

As immigration from Asia and Latin America reshapes the demographic composition of the U.S., some analysts have anticipated the decline of conservative white evangelicals’ influence in politics. Yet, Donald Trump captured a larger share of the white evangelical vote in the 2016 election than any candidate in the previous four presidential elections. Why has the political clout of white evangelicals persisted at a time of increased racial and ethnic diversity? Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, examines a new generation of Asian American and Latino evangelicals and offers an account of why demographic change does not always result in a new political order. She focuses in particular on White evangelicals' attitudes toward newcomers and how a sense of "in-group embattlement" helps to explain a divergent political agenda between White and non-White evangelicals.