Gallup takes another look at how religious intensity correlates with party identification and not much has changed.

Thus, Republicans are in the plurality among highly religious Americans. For each of the other three groups, Democrats are equal with or higher in number than Republicans. The Democratic edge expands as religiosity decreases. Among the not-religious group, Democrats have a 30-point edge over Republicans.

Ethnicity, however, adds a significant wrinkle, where this trend applies the strongest to non-hispanic whites and the least to African-Americans.

The pattern is quite different among whites. Identification with the Republican Party overwhelms identification with the Democratic Party by more than a 2-to-1 margin among highly religious whites, and by a still-substantial margin among those who are religious. Exactly the opposite pattern obtains among whites who are not religious, with a 2-to-1 margin in favor of Democratic versus Republican identification.

Maybe Mormons aren’t the freakishly conservative outliers they sometimes appear to be. Perhaps it’s more of a reflection of their religious activity and demographics.