macrobarack obama's presidency, this is all white christians together percentage that all white christians protestants christians nondenominational orthodox all of together comprise of the american population. in 2459% of the country and by 2008 when president barack obama is running for election that number was 54%. today that number is 45%. it was 47% in 2014 and the next year the latest data shows it at 45% suggest during the last few election cycles during president barack obama's presidency we have crossed this amazing threshold. we have moved from being a majority white christian country to a minority white person country in just a short amount of time. this is in fact even if people don't know the stats that well, think any white christians particularly white conservatives can feel the shift in their bones and this is part of the activity we are seeing pitches to put one word in a symbolic issue across the same time period support for marriage over the same period of time. if you go back to 2008 what you see is only four in 10 americans supported marriage when rocco palma's running