February 12, 2021 (Family Research Council) — There were a lot of interesting storylines from the 2020 election that got lost in the mess of recounts and court cases. But now that some of the fog is clearing, and both parties have a chance to follow the trends, Republicans are coming face to face with a stunning development. It wasn’t just minority voters that ran to Republicans last November. If you’re looking for the sharpest dividing line in the country, it was in a place most pundits didn’t look: marriage.
Brad Wilcox has been studying the institution of marriage for a long time — but even he was surprised by the data. Married Americans keep voting Republican, he wrote after poring over the numbers from the 2020 election. Of course, he agreed, it’s long been assumed that “… families and communities with more children tend to vote red. But there is another key dimension: Marriage continues to shape U.S. elections. This past November, married Americans and communities with more married men and women were markedly more likely to vote Republican.”
In fact, Wilcox explained, it’s one of the strongest associations in voting behavior he’s seen. “You see this trend across the board,”
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