The classic blues came to draw more readily and obviously on other forms of music--from the jazz world (with many musicians beginning to perform in both the blues and jazz genre) as well as from minstrel shows, circuses, vaudeville, and other sources of traveling music in the South.
In the 20 states where primary or caucus exit polls have been conducted so far, Trump has won an average of 36 percent of the vote from white âborn-again or evangelical Christians,â good for a plurality in 12 states and only slightly lower than his support (38 percent) among all other Republican voters.
8Christians are declining as a share of the U.S. population, and the number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any organized religion has grown. While the U.S. remains home to more Christians than any other country, the percentage of Americans identifying as Christian dropped from 78% in 2007 to 71% in 2014.