Majority of Latinos Say Skin Color Impacts Opportunity in America and Shapes Daily Life
Latinos with darker skin color report more discrimination experiences than Latinos with lighter skin color.
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Latinos with darker skin color report more discrimination experiences than Latinos with lighter skin color.
About half of Americans see their identity reflected very well in the census’s race and ethnicity questions.
The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade.
About eight-in-ten Latino registered voters and U.S. voters overall rate the economy as very important to their vote.
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.
About half of U.S. Hispanics said in our December 2019 survey that they had serious concerns about their place in the country.
Since 2000, the size of the immigrant electorate has nearly doubled. More than 23 million U.S. immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
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.
The U.S. Hispanic population reached a record 60.6 million in 2019, up 930,000 over the previous year and up from 50.7 million in 2010.
About half of U.S. Latinos say the situation for Hispanics in the U.S. has worsened over the past year, and a majority say they worry that they or someone they know could be deported.
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