The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Electorate
In battleground states, Hispanics grew more than other racial or ethnic groups as a share of eligible voters.
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In battleground states, Hispanics grew more than other racial or ethnic groups as a share of eligible voters.
About eight-in-ten Latino registered voters and U.S. voters overall rate the economy as very important to their vote.
El Salvador experienced a 40% drop in remittances in April 2020 compared with April 2019, the largest decline among the six nations analyzed.
Key statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018.
The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.
As the nation’s economy contracted at a record rate in recent months, the group’s unemployment rate rose sharply, particularly among Hispanic women, and remains higher among Hispanic workers than U.S. workers overall.
Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.
If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren’t counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.
About half of U.S. Hispanics said in our December 2019 survey that they had serious concerns about their place in the country.
From 2010 to 2019, the U.S. population increased by 18.9 million, and Hispanics accounted for more than half of this growth.
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