It’s important to note there’s not really a political divide between the cultural elite evangelicals and their poorer neighbors.
A divide could form assuming the children of those cultural elites, cease to be Evangelicals. We see signs of that in the Southern suburbs already.
Also it should be noted that the more wealthier and low country whites have always been less interested in religious based politics and more concerned about class and race. This is why the they were first to become Republicans or start becoming Republicans in the mid 20th century, while the more religious, poorer upcountry whites didn't start getting flipped until the 1990's when the culture wars were at their height. This shouldn't be taken to assume that the former group was not religious, they were just less motivated by issues derived from it comparatively speaking.
