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Curious about how high that number is for ethnic minorities. Anecdotally, minorities (black, Asian, Hispanic) tend to be more religious.

yhoneycomb 6y ago
lol was downvoted for this classic hacker news
CountDrewku 6y ago
They also tend to be more conservative and I think that's starting to change their voting habits. A lot are leaving the left. Edit: Ok just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Minorities in this country are highly religious. Take a look at how many blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump this election.
- whymauri 6y ago
  You're being downvoted, but this can be true in the Hispanic community. One must realize that a third-generation Cuban American in Miami lives a totally different experience than a naturalized Colombian carpenter in East Boston, both of which might struggle to relate with the trials and tribulation of a Mexican or Guatemalan teenager who crossed the border alone during the past four years. So yes: some fractions of the Hispanic community are highly conservative (the Cuban abuelitas and abuelitos playing dominos on Sundays LOVE to vote) and others are quite literally the opposite. One thing to note is that Spanish-language media leans conservative -- I think this is what you're talking about. Previously immobilized voting blocks in South Florida are leaning conservative partially because the news coverage of 2020 has been from a conservative angle.
- cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  They tend to be conservative on cultural issues, but "left" on economic issues and the true "triumph" of the hard right and the failure of the "left" has been that they tied these two things so closely together that people routinely vote against their own interests on economic issues because of how they feel about cultural issues.
- darksaints 6y ago
  You're not wrong, at least about hispanics. Many hispanics in the US come from failed socialist states, so they tend to come to the US looking for capitalism. And they tend to be religious and socially conservative. Luckily for the democratic party, the republican party has doubled down on anything racist they can get their hands on, so many hispanic voters that would probably like to vote republican actually vote democrat. Now if the republican party actually decided to reverse course on immigration issues and create a legal economic immigration regime with a statutory path to citizenship, they would probably lose a handful of trump supporters but they would likely gain a supermajority of the hispanic vote. And that could be an unstoppable political force for decades. Hell, I could probably be convinced to vote republican again.
jessaustin 6y ago
TFA links to the Gallup site [0], which doesn't have as much about this as one would expect, but does say that "Non-Hispanic Black adults" are at 59% and Hispanic Americans are shockingly low at 37%. [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...

yhoneycomb 6y ago

lol was downvoted for this classic hacker news

CountDrewku 6y ago

They also tend to be more conservative and I think that's starting to change their voting habits. A lot are leaving the left. Edit: Ok just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Minorities in this country are highly religious. Take a look at how many blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump this election.

whymauri 6y ago
You're being downvoted, but this can be true in the Hispanic community. One must realize that a third-generation Cuban American in Miami lives a totally different experience than a naturalized Colombian carpenter in East Boston, both of which might struggle to relate with the trials and tribulation of a Mexican or Guatemalan teenager who crossed the border alone during the past four years. So yes: some fractions of the Hispanic community are highly conservative (the Cuban abuelitas and abuelitos playing dominos on Sundays LOVE to vote) and others are quite literally the opposite. One thing to note is that Spanish-language media leans conservative -- I think this is what you're talking about. Previously immobilized voting blocks in South Florida are leaning conservative partially because the news coverage of 2020 has been from a conservative angle.
cmrdporcupine 6y ago
They tend to be conservative on cultural issues, but "left" on economic issues and the true "triumph" of the hard right and the failure of the "left" has been that they tied these two things so closely together that people routinely vote against their own interests on economic issues because of how they feel about cultural issues.
darksaints 6y ago
You're not wrong, at least about hispanics. Many hispanics in the US come from failed socialist states, so they tend to come to the US looking for capitalism. And they tend to be religious and socially conservative. Luckily for the democratic party, the republican party has doubled down on anything racist they can get their hands on, so many hispanic voters that would probably like to vote republican actually vote democrat. Now if the republican party actually decided to reverse course on immigration issues and create a legal economic immigration regime with a statutory path to citizenship, they would probably lose a handful of trump supporters but they would likely gain a supermajority of the hispanic vote. And that could be an unstoppable political force for decades. Hell, I could probably be convinced to vote republican again.

jessaustin 6y ago

TFA links to the Gallup site [0], which doesn't have as much about this as one would expect, but does say that "Non-Hispanic Black adults" are at 59% and Hispanic Americans are shockingly low at 37%. [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...