Nine-in-ten Black ‘nones’ believe in God, but fewer pray or attend services
The vast majority of religiously unaffiliated Black Americans believe in God and about half pray regularly, although few attend services.
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The vast majority of religiously unaffiliated Black Americans believe in God and about half pray regularly, although few attend services.
In an open-ended question allowing Americans to name which country they see as the greatest threat to the U.S., 50% name China.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
Among the 32 places surveyed, support for legal same-sex marriage is highest in Sweden, where 92% of adults favor it, and lowest in Nigeria, where only 2% back it.
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
The Census Bureau estimates there were roughly 63.7 million Hispanics in the U.S. as of 2022, a new high. They made up 19% of the nation’s population.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.
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