In my experience, Catholics are:

You gotta remember that a lot of Catholic women in this nation are Latinas. If you go to California, Arizona, Texas, you can meet droves of devout Catholic Latinas that are fiery pro-labor, pro-racial/economic equality liberals.

Because most Catholics, except for the fundies, believe in science. I was raised a Catholic ans went to Catholic school and science was never demonized or explained away with the old cuz Jesus line Evangelicals seem to love. Now my brother and his family are those moral evangelicals who voted for trump, but they’re…

LONG POST AHEAD: I am from the briny North, but at least in my area most Catholics would probably be Episcopalian, had that denomimation taken root around here. We’re “Catholic”, where the churches tend to focus on charity, acceptance, etc.

Catholics who follow the Jesuit tradition (a la our current Pope) typically lean very blue because the focus is on social justice, not single-focus issues like abortion. They’re still against abortion (and contraception, for that matter), but it doesn’t completely define their politics.

Coasts, probably. Definitely parts of the Northeast. I grew up Catholic in Massachusetts - yes, we got the bullshit about “partial term abortions” in the Sunday bulletin but most people I knew were generally progressive. My own parents never took a real hard line on it (for example, my mom has told me she feels that…

<Raises hand> Along with many among my all-girls high school’s and K-8 grammar school’s graduating classes. My Catholic school experience was not at all like the horror stories that get described here. Sex ed started in 3rd grade and continued throughout high school, including birth control, excluding abortion but…

1. Catholics actually have lots of abortions

I live in a very Catholic blue state and I think you might be able to attribute at least some of that to ethnicity, because I also live in one of the most Hispanic states. Most of the Catholics I’ve known don’t like abortion, but they tend to think its not really their business to meddle in someone else’s life. Very…

A lot of Catholics have immigrants in their recent ancestry, that and there’s the proud Catholic tradition of creating atheists. My experience as a southern European from a “Catholic” family is that a lot of Catholics are actually just “Catholic.” They just aren’t as hardcore as Evangelicals. They like incense and…

So much this. I’m an older white woman who lives in an area in Texas that is purple. Amongst my friends/acquaintances, the conservatives are evangelicals and the liberals/progressives are Catholics or members of more accepting mainline Protestant denominations (or atheists like me).

This is only my little slice of Catholicism, but if they vote Democrat it’s because charity and service to the poor is a huge part of the Catholic community. I admit, I was raised by very weird Catholics.

Having spent 16 years in catholic school including two universities, I can attest to the fact that the catholics are taught to care more about the life and dignity of living human beings than they do about fetuses.

Also, within those categories, college education moves the needle left every time.

I think this is an interesting point, and it’s the *only* way I can logic Alabama’s support of Moore. To them, it was a choice between a child molester and a child murderer, and they chose what they perceived to be the lesser of two evils.

Absolutely right! White non-evangelical women went overwhelmingly for Jones.

As you single out the admirable voting record of black women, Jewish women, Latinas, Lesbians (of any ethnicity/faith). Not mentioned here are Muslim and Catholic women, who also tend to vote Democratic.

I’m pretty sure the white woman GOP voters in my family (Alabamans) vote 100% only based on abortion. They will never vote for someone who admits to being pro-choice. For real. That and they are stealth racists who don’t care about equality. It’s like beating your head against a wall to convince them anything other…

This is about Alabama guys, the black vote carried the night and Trump blames her because they are all friends of hers and she couldn’t get them to vote for him.

I hate to resort to capitals, but a quick note to Bannon, McConnell, Trump and the rest: