''The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada'' is a book by

Lydia Bean Lydia N. Bean is an American sociologist. She authored an ethnographic book, '' The Politics of Evangelical Identity'' (2014), about Evangelical communities on the Canada–United States border. Bean is a fellow at New America and a faculty resea ...

first published by

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in 2014. A work of

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, the book draws on Bean's research in

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communities in Canada and the United States. Bean found that the American Evangelicals she interviewed identified as highly patriotic, while Canadian congregants were more hesitant about engaging in political campaigning. In a 2016 article in ''

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'' about

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, and the evangelical vote, Bean stated, "Evangelicals who don’t go to church very much but identify as Christian, with Christian nationalistic rhetoric, but aren’t very well formed or advised by Christian community leaders—they’re going for Trump. I think Ted Cruz is picking up the older, more observant people who are theologically and politically conservative, the people who actually go to church every week."

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