Race, Ethnicity & Politics

Americans now see reducing the budget deficit as a higher priority for the president and Congress to address than in recent years. But strengthening the economy continues to be the public’s top policy priority.

Most Black adults (63%) say voting is an extremely or very effective strategy for Black progress; only 42% say the same of protesting.

A quarter of voting members of the U.S. Congress identify their race or ethnicity as something other than non-Hispanic White.

Around two-thirds of Black Democrats (66%) say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth.

U.S. Hispanics’ policy views do not always align with those of non-Latinos in the same party, recent surveys have found.

Black Republicans tend to support individualistic approaches to addressing racial inequality, while Black Democrats back institutional approaches.

The number of Black eligible voters in the U.S. has grown modestly in recent years and is projected to reach 32.7 million in November 2022.

Latinos are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the U.S. electorate since the last midterm elections.

The number of Asian American eligible voters has grown by 9%, or just about a million eligible voters, in the past four years.

Around four-in-ten Black adults in the United States (39%) say Black Lives Matter has done the most to help Black people in recent years.