Red churches and blue churches are here to stay. So says John Green, director of the University of Akron’s Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, who just released the results of a nationwide survey that indicated continuing polarization between and within major religious groups. In terms of how specific divisions affected the elections, there’s not much that’s new — “traditionalists” went for Bush, “modernists” for Kerry — but while the survey was meant to be the last of its kind, the level of polarization has convinced the Bliss Institute of the need for future research, and another color-coded cultural portrait in 2008.