 Ronald Reagan was especially popular among both evangelicals and ethnic Catholics known as Reagan Democrats.By 2000 the Republican coalition included about half the Catholics and a large majority of white evangelicals.In 1980 "The New York Times" warned the Catholic bishops that if they followed the church's instructions and denied communion to politicians who advocated a pro-choice position regarding abortion they would be "imposing a test of religious loyalty" that might jeopardize "the truce of tolerance by which Americans maintain civility and enlarge religious liberty".