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The alt-right has seen its membership ranks swell exponentially with libertarians that reject weak national (non-tribal) leadership within their movement.  Although they are not part of the original alt-right, ex-libertarians make up a plurality of this emerging grassroots movement.
 
The alt-right has seen its membership ranks swell exponentially with libertarians that reject weak national (non-tribal) leadership within their movement.  Although they are not part of the original alt-right, ex-libertarians make up a plurality of this emerging grassroots movement.
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== Agnosticism, atheism and the alt-right ==
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''See also:'' [[Atheism and the alt-right]]
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Professor George Hawley of the University of Alabama and author of the book ''Making Sense of the Alt-Right'' said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) about the [[alt-right]] movement:
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{{Cquote|I would say it is definitely a young movement. I'd say that it is predominantly white millennial men. It is not sort of stereotypically conservative in its profile. I'd say that probably it is a more secular population than the country overall. That is, there are a lot of [[agnosticism|agnostics]] and [[Atheism|atheists]] or people who are just generally indifferent to religion. And I think that it is a fairly well-educated movement on average, that as I think that probably the model alt-right member has at least some college education.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/543730227/unite-the-right-charlottesville-rally-represented-collection-of-alt-right-groups 'Unite The Right': Charlottesville Rally Represented Collection Of Alt-Right Groups], All Things Considered, National Public Radio</ref>}}
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In the [[Western World]] whites and males are both majorities within the  [[atheist population]] (see: [[Demographics of atheism]] and  [[Western atheism and race]]  and [[Atheism and women]]).
    
==View of Christianity==
 
==View of Christianity==
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