A study reveals that political affiliation may be realigning along non-racial lines.

A Gallup poll reveals that married people are thriving significantly more than cohabitors or singles and

ways to fix the mental health epidemic tied to Gen Z and smartphones.

These are the stories we'll discuss today.

We will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host Sean McDow and I'm joined by Biola Professor and author Rick Langer.

This is the Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update brought to you by

Talbot School of Theology Biola University. Rick, thanks for coming back to

unpack these stories with me. So glad to be with you, Sean. Well, these stories are fascinating.

So let's jump right in and this first one is from the New York Times and it's an opinion piece from David French.

And the title is A Racial Reelignment in politics could be a good thing.

So here's what he said. He said there's evidence that voters of color are trending Republican.

Now I pulled some extra data from outside of this article specifically.

He's talking about Hispanic, Asian, and black voters.

But specifically on black voters,

Trump got 8% in 2016, 12% in 2020, and now studies are showing 15 to 20%

percent possibly in 2024.

Now he says some other things in this article and that I really want to know what you think about

this.

He said how did this happen?

He says well voters of color are trending towards Republican and

Trump, but this was offset by more white voters voting the other direction. Now in

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