Half of Southerners believe the US was founded as ‘explicitly Christian,’ new poll finds

By Rickey Ciapha Dennis, Jr. Half of residents in 11 Southern states believe that America was founded as an explicitly Christian nation, a recent Winthrop University poll found. The view is a crux of Christian Nationalism, said poll director Scott Huffman. Those who espouse Christian Nationalist beliefs support the idea that the United States should …