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    Religion & Public Life: A Faith-Based Partisan Divide

    The Pew Forum’s chapter from the new Pew Research Center publication, Trends 2005 Learn more about the publication, Trends 2005 <!–Read more about Religion in Politics–> Introduction The United States has a long tradition of separating church from state, but an equally powerful inclination to mix religion with politics. Throughout our nation’s history, great political […]

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    Part 1. The political and media landscape in 2004

    The internet became an important factor during the 2004 campaign. The internet’s distinctive role in politics has arisen because it can be used in multiple ways. Part deliberative town square, part raucous debating society, part research library, part instant news source, and part political comedy club, the internet connects voters to a wealth of content […]

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    II. Network News Findings

    How much campaign coverage aired on the network news? All five networks devoted a significant amount of time to election coverage and gave significantly more air time to the campaign than local stations did. In terms of the quantity of election coverage, Univision rivals and in some cases exceeds the English-language networks. Univision has long […]

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    II. Introduction

    In a now familiar decennial ritual, Americans completed their Census questionnaires in the spring of 2000. Most identified their race by selecting one or more of the five standard race categories-white, black, American Indian, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. But for millions of Americans the standard race categories did not fit (Figure 1). By […]

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    IX. Conclusions

    The profile of SOR Hispanic detailed above describes a population composed of both native-born and immigrant members. While, Census data indicate that the gulf between SOR and white Hispanics is certainly not as wide as that between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, results consistently show that SOR Hispanics have a weaker economic mooring relative to white […]

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    VIII. From Aggregate Statistics to Attitudes

    The 2002 National Survey of Latinos provides both general demographic data on the Latino population as well as attitudinal information on such issues as identity, discrimination, incorporation into the mainstream of society, and experience with the health care and financial systems. While the 2002 NSL sampled only adults and focused on the attitudes and experiences […]

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    IV. Education, Employment and Earnings

    For both the native and the foreign born, feelings of inclusion and civic engagement are related to socioeconomic status, which in turn can be related to race. For example, one Cuban American focus group respondent stated it this way, “When it comes to money, social classes think of themselves as higher or lower. The white […]

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    III. Immigration and Citizenship

    Whether a person was born in the United States or abroad is a key demographic characteristic. Foreignborn Latinos more often say they are “some other race” (46 percent) than the native born (40 percent). Cuban-born immigrants are the exception. And, for reasons including intermarriage, whiteness is associated with distance from the immigrant experience (Edmonston et […]

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    Race Tightens Again, Kerry’s Image Improves

    Summary of Findings As the campaign heads into its final stages, the presidential race is again extremely close. The latest Pew Research Center survey of 1,307 registered voters, conducted Oct. 15-19, finds President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry tied at 45%-45% among registered voters, and 47%-47% among likely voters.(1) These findings represent a […]