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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Race and Ethnicity
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Hispanic voters say economy, health care and COVID-19 are top issues in 2020 presidential election
About eight-in-ten Latino registered voters and U.S. voters overall rate the economy as very important to their vote.
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Amid COVID-19, remittances to some Latin American nations fell sharply in April, then rebounded
El Salvador experienced a 40% drop in remittances in April 2020 compared with April 2019, the largest decline among the six nations analyzed.
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Facts on U.S. immigrants, 2018
Key statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018.
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Key findings about multiracial identity in the U.S. as Harris becomes vice presidential nominee
Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.
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About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It
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.
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Coronavirus Economic Downturn Has Hit Latinos Especially Hard
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.
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Four-in-ten who haven’t yet filled out U.S. census say they wouldn’t answer the door for a census worker
Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.
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How removing unauthorized immigrants from census statistics could affect House reapportionment
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.
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Before COVID-19, many Latinos worried about their place in America and had experienced discrimination
About half of U.S. Hispanics said in our December 2019 survey that they had serious concerns about their place in the country.
