10 facts about Black Republicans
Black Republicans tend to support individualistic approaches to addressing racial inequality, while Black Democrats back institutional approaches.
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Black Republicans tend to support individualistic approaches to addressing racial inequality, while Black Democrats back institutional approaches.
An estimated 990,000 Hispanics of Spanish origin – those who are immigrants from or trace their family ancestry to Spain – resided in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
More Black Americans say health outcomes for Black people in the United States have improved over the past 20 years than say outcomes have worsened.
Nearly six-in-ten want organizations working for Black progress to address the distinct challenges facing Black LGBTQ people. Black Americans are more likely to know someone who is transgender or nonbinary than to identify as such themselves.
Government data shows gains in education, employment and earnings for Hispanic women, but gaps with other groups remain.
About half of Black adults (52%) say racism in U.S. laws is the bigger problem for Black people, while 43% cite racism by individuals.
In an August 2022 survey, 54% of Black adults said they had a very or somewhat negative impression of capitalism, up from 40% in May 2019.
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.
Around four-in-ten Black adults in the United States (39%) say Black Lives Matter has done the most to help Black people in recent years.
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