Overview
- PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas classifies 11% of Americans as adherents and 21% as sympathizers, with 37% skeptics and 27% rejecters.
- Majorities of Republicans (56%), white evangelical Protestants (67%) and Hispanic Protestants (54%) fall into the adherent or sympathizer categories.
- Support clusters in the South and parts of the Midwest, led by Arkansas (54%), Mississippi (52%), West Virginia (51%), Oklahoma (49%) and Wyoming (46%), with lower levels in states such as Massachusetts, New York and Washington.
- Adherents are far more likely to back illiberal measures, including viewing immigrants as an invasion, supporting deportations without due process, and accepting political violence; 73% view Trump as a strong leader who should be given more power, while a majority of Americans call him a dangerous dictator.
- The survey of 22,111 adults conducted Feb.–Dec. 2025 shows national shares largely stable since 2022, with findings linked to growing influence through aligned officials, state GOP strongholds and federal initiatives like the Religious Liberty Commission.