Young people contributed to the shift. “If you’re a young white male these days and you think of yourself as conservative, then being religious is a part of that.”

Despite a consistent decline in the share of adults in the United States who identified as Christians over the last 17 years, the trend appears to have slowed in the last five years of a long-term

The decline in the number of people in the United States identifying as Christian has slowed down and might have leveled off, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.