According to a March 2015 article by author George Yancy (What Christianophobia Looks Like in America), the American National Election Studies, which conducts a national survey of voters before and after every presidential election, found that approximately one-third of all respondents rated conservation Christians lower than any other religious or racial group. Yancy himself conducted an online survey of nearly 4,000 people in 2009. Yancey's survey was focused on the same demographic group that had rated conservative Christians poorly in the ANES survey, namely highly educated, white and politically progressive. The results revealed an extreme amount of negativity toward Christians similar to the ANES survey, but with some extremist remarks in the respondents answers to open-ended questions. Among these extremist remarks were: “Churches and houses of religion should be designated as nuclear test zones”, “Kill them all, let their god sort them out”, and “The only good Christian is a dead Christian.” Yancey concludes, “I cannot determine by my data the percentage of Americans with such a level of vitriol, but judging by the comments, it’s not a trivial amount.”
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