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Talk about grace under pressure. As families and loved ones gather around the table on Thursday for one of the most beloved rituals of the national religion -- that would be Thanksgiving, the Norman Rockwell version -- all eyes will be on the person designated to lead the diners in giving thanks, with God being the traditional object of the praise.
If you are a Republican, chances are good that you will take up the task with a glad heart and a practiced tongue. If you are a Democrat, you may want to pray -- for perhaps the first time in your life -- that there's a Republican at the table.
That's because there are few other behaviors that so neatly cleave the body politic in half than the habit of saying grace before meals -- and there are few other behaviors that so clearly telegraph your partisan preference.
According to David Campbell and Robert Putnam, authors of "American Grace: How Religion Divides And Unites Us," a sweeping new survey of faith in the United States, 44 percent of Americans report saying grace or a similar blessing almost every day before eating while 46 percent almost never say it. There is hardly any middle ground on this issue, and, they write, "few things about a person correspond as tightly to partisanship as saying grace."
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