Facts don't lie, but the people who use them sometimes do:

Like charts and statistics? Thomas Edsall, a professor of journalism, provides some interesting ones in today's New York Times' op-ed pages. The electorate, in case you haven't already figured this out, is changing. Ethnicity and religion show the big changes. since that 35-year period following WWII.

One of the more interesting shifts is that now one out of every eight respondents is willing to identify him or herself as "unaffiliated" in terms of religion. During the period following the war, most people would have been terrified to identify themselves this way. Being anything other than "Christian" suggested the possibility that you might well be a communist or at least a sympathizer.