As heirs of traditional values that make the United States distinct, white evangelicals overwhelming hold both that the United States offers equal opportunity to all and that inequality results from lack of individual initiative and noncompetitive practices, such as accepting single-parent homes, having too many children, not stressing education, being too willing to receive welfare, and being unable to move beyond the past. White Americans favor individualistic explanations over structural ones.15 White American evangelicals are even more inclined to this pattern.
