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> Conservative socially does not have much to do with religion

It does in the US. Absolutely does.



This is not true. Would you consider James Damore conservative? His views certainly weren't religious.

The rise of "social justice" means that anyone who doesn't agree with those tactics is now conservative. I think you'll find many atheists in those ranks. In fact, their community was one of the first battle grounds in the current culture war.


Okay, so it does in the US, generally speaking, but doesn't have much to do with why Chinese immigrants tend to hold certain views that are considered conservative in America as the vast majority of recent ones are not at all religious in the first place.


It does in certain regions. In others, not so much.


It has a lot to do with religion but individually does not depend on it; plenty of religious people (including in the religous groups dominated by social conservatives) are not social conservatives, and plenty of social conservatives are not religious. That said, there are strong correlations...




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