These data reinforce the basic challenge facing the Republican Party today as it ponders how best to remedy a situation that finds Democrats in control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Republicans have a clear monopoly on the allegiance of white conservative Americans, but the GOP's challenge is figuring out whether this is enough of a base on which to build for the future.Sure it is. If by "future," you mean building a time machine and going back to the eighteenth century.
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Republican Base Heavily White, Conservative, Religious: Gallup finds that 89% of Republicans are white, and 63% of Republicans identify specifically as white conservatives.
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