"We Are at a Hinge Moment in American History in Terms of Demographic Change in the Country and I Think That's What Is Fuelling a Lot of the Divides'"

"'But I think this sense of ownership of the culture and the country by white Protestant Christians in particular has been so strong in American culture, it is part of the sense of loss, the sense of disruption that you feel so much on the conservative side of politics as these demographics are changing. That's the underlying context for all the political wrangling that we're having.'" 

David Smith at The Guardian notes that "[w]hereas white Christians made up 54% of the population when Barack Obama was first running for president in 2008, they now make up only 44%."