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    African Americans More Upbeat

    Nearly twice as many blacks now as in 2007 say that the “situation of black people in this country” is better than it was five years earlier.

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    Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects

    Assessments about the state of black progress in America have improved more dramatically among blacks during the past two years than at any time in the past quarter century.

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    U.S. Muslims: Americans First?

    That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they consider themselves Muslims first; 28% say they think of themselves first as Americans.

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    Millennials’ Judgments About Recent Trends Not So Different

    Opinions of older adults tend to differ more from the other age groups than the views of those of the youngest generation when it comes to embracing technological advances and societal change. Two issues, the acceptance of homosexuality and tattoos, create especially large generational gaps.

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    Did ’We’ Want to Do It?

    With women about to become the majority of the U.S. workforce, how do most of today’s Rosie the Riveters feel about being “put to more productive use?” In a word: ambivalent.

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    Internet User Profiles Reloaded

    A new look at internet users finds 74% of Americans online, 60% using broadband at home and 55% surfing the Web wirelessly.

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    Non-Dogmatic Americans

    About one-third of Americans say they regularly or occasionally attend religious services at more than one place; most sometimes attend services of a faith different from their own.

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    Reading the Stars

    One-in-four American adults believe in astrology, including 23% of Christians.

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    Eyed by Evil

    Fully 16% of Americans believe in the “evil eye” or that certain people can cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen to someone.

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