Roughly half of Republicans (47%) and white evangelicals (46%) say it’s not an important threat at all.

20% of registered voters said the religiously based nationalism was a “critical threat” and 27% said it was an “important but not critical threat.”

As 2016’s election wound down, political scientists scrambled to understand which issue pushed President Donald Trump over the finish line.

And while research showed economic dissatisfaction and prejudice toward immigrants and minorities to be a strong indicator of support for Trump, one study found that the best way to determine vote choice in 2016 was by gauging adherence to Christian nationalist ideology.

“Christian nationalism,” or the belief that the country is or should be a Christian nation that can often include social and political campaigns supposedly aimed at maintaining or reverting back to that status, is not a new phenomenon, but the fervor among its adherents grows stronger amid the United States’ shift toward a more diverse and secular country. A March 22-24 Morning Consult poll finds that nearly half of the voting public views that ideology as an important or critical threat to the vital interests of the country within the next 10 years.