The Only Place the White Population Increased

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The Only Place the White Population Increased

August 12, 2021 at 6:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/12/the-only-place-the-white-population-increased/

"SNIP......

According to the newly-released U.S. Census data, Washington, D.C. was the only location in America where the white share of the population increased over the last decade.

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[walkingman]

1. I view the data for Texas as good news.....

People of color make up 95% of Texas’ population growth, and cities and suburbs are booming, 2020 census shows the state’s Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with Texas gaining nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010.

That is the primary reason that the Texas GOP is fighting so hard for voter suppression.

Maybe there is hope of getting rid of these hillbillies, shitkickers, rednecks, and now spreadnecks that run our State Government?

[Marius25]

3. But, a lot of Hispanics vote Republican, so that may not be a good thing

[walkingman]

7. Yes, some vote Republican but the vast majority

vote Democratic. I think Biden won by about 20 points among Hispanic voters and I that will increase with education. The abortion issue is a big thing. There is also a "us vs them" when it comes to illegal/legal immigrants.

[Celerity]

9. the fastest growing group of evangelicals is Latinos, and they are more likely to vote Rethug.

For the first time ever, less than 50% of Latinos in the US are Catholic. Let that sink in.

In 2014, 11% of US evangelicals were Latino. 1 or 2 years ago it was up to 19%. Likely easily over 20% now. Thousands of small evangelical seed churches are being systematically set up by Latinos. The whole thing is being driven by the younger cohorts, not a bunch of ageing Boomers who are deciding to go hardcore con in religion and politics.

I did an OP on this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215725110


The Fastest-Growing Group of American Evangelicals (Latino)

A new generation of Latino Protestants is poised to transform our religious and political landscapes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/latinos-will-determine-future-american-evangelicalism/619551/



In 2007, when Obe and Jacqueline Arellano were in their mid-20s, they moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Aurora, Illinois, with the dream of starting a church. They chose Aurora, a midsize city with about 200,000 residents, mostly because about 40 percent of its population is Latino. Obe, a first-generation Mexican American pastor, told me, “We sensed God wanted us there.” By 2010, the couple had “planted a church,” the Protestant term for starting a brand-new congregation. This summer, the Arellanos moved to Long Beach, California, to pastor at Light & Life Christian Fellowship, which has planted 20 churches in 20 years. Their story is at once singular and representative of national trends: Across the United States, more Latino pastors are founding churches than ever before, a trend that challenges conventional views of evangelicalism and could have massive implications for the future of American politics.

Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church and converting to evangelical Protestantism in increased numbers, and evangelical organizations are putting more energy and resources toward reaching potential Latino congregants. Latinos are the fastest-growing group of evangelicals in the country, and Latino Protestants, in particular, have higher levels of religiosity—meaning they tend to go to church, pray, and read the Bible more often than both Anglo Protestants and Latino Catholics, according to Mark Mulder, a sociology professor at Calvin University and a co-author of Latino Protestants in America. At the same time, a major demographic shift is under way. Arellano, who supports Light & Life’s Spanish-speaking campus, Luz y Vida, told me, “By 2060, the Hispanic population in the United States is expected to grow from 60 million to over 110 million.” None of this is lost on either Latino or Anglo evangelical leadership: They know they need to recruit and train Latino pastors if they’re going to achieve what Arellano describes as “our vision to see that the kingdom of God will go forward and reach more people and get into every nook and cranny of society.”

The stakes of intensified Latino evangelicalism are manifold, and they depend on what kind of evangelicalism prevails across the country. The term evangelical has become synonymous with a voting bloc of Anglo cultural conservatives, but in general theological terms, evangelicals are Christians who believe in the supremacy of the Bible and that they are compelled to spread its gospel. Some Christians who identify with the theological definition fit the political stereotype, but others don’t. That’s true among evangelical Latino leaders too—they have very different interpretations of how the teachings of Jesus Christ call them to act. Every pastor I spoke with told me that they want to see more Latino pastors in leadership positions, and they each had a different take on what new Latino leadership could mean for the future of evangelicalism. When we spoke over the phone, Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the pastor of New Season Worship, in Sacramento, California, told me, “We’re not extending our hand out, asking, ‘Can you help us plant churches?’ We’re coming to primarily white denominations and going, ‘You all need our help.’ This is a flipping of the script.”

Although Latino congregations are too diverse to characterize in shorthand, one of the few declarative statements that can be made about Latino Protestants is a fact borne out with numbers: They are likelier than Latino Catholics to vote Republican. The expansion of Latino evangelicalism bucks assumptions that Democrats and progressives will soon have a clear advantage as the white church declines and the Hispanic electorate rises. “Some counterintuitive things that have happened [in our national politics] would make more sense if we better understood the faith communities that exist within Latinx Protestantism,” Mulder told me over the phone, alluding to the differing perspectives Latinos hold on many issues, including immigration, and how more Latinos voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 than in 2016. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, Protestant affiliation correlated more with Hispanic approval of Trump’s job in office than age or gender.

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excellent longform article, much more at the top link



There is a link in the article that references the Religious Landscape Study by Pew

in 2014 11% of evangelicals were Latino.



Now, the latest numbers from Pew show it is up to 19% (in less that 7 years)

It is likely over 20% now and growing rapidly, driven by the younger gens,

less than half of Latinos in the US are now Catholic, which is pretty amazing

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/racial-and-ethnic-composition/latino/

[walkingman]

10. Wow - good info. Thank you. I had no idea nor can I understand the

religious thing. It didn't really take when I was a child and the older I got the more I rejected it. Until now in my 70's I think of it as just a lot really weird people.

I do believe that the evangelical movements days are numbered and now maybe even more so as they abandoned most in not all of their basic religious principles. I personally view it as a social movement but that could be because I find it so phoney?

[Sympthsical]

11. Latino evangelicals are everywhere in California now

Loudspeakers on corners, local churches, people ministering at food kitchens and pantries.

And these are not older Latinos. These are late teens and early twenties preaching like they are ten years away from their first mega church. There's a church by me I walk past sometimes. The service is entirely in Spanish, so for about a year I assumed it was a Catholic church. Looked one day. Nope.

There's a kind of patronizing racism that comes down from some white liberals. In their heads they think Brown = Democrat or liberal. Yeah. The next two decades are going to be a roller coaster for them. I remember, when I was coming into my political consciousness about twenty years ago, people were declaring, "The Republican party will be dead in 20 years!" Mhm. How's that going? A third of Latinos voted for Trump. Can you imagine what that will look like in the future when the Republican party goes back to nominating vaguely sane candidates?

I also see the reactions to the census and wonder what reality people are living in. "Less white people will mean less racism!"

Oh dear. They should come to the Bay Area sometime and watch all the different ethnicies be less racist toward each other.

Humans are tribal. Everyone's in for some shit in the future. Changing demographics are no guarantee of anything at all.

[JI7]

12. More vote Democratic so it is a good thing . The thing we need to work on is turnout

[Klaralven]

2. Looks like Hispanics and Asians increased, Blacks decreased slightly.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Washington D.C. was the only location in America where the white share of the population increased"

I know in the past we used to call D.C. "chocolate city" and gradually over the past 10 years, folks have started calling it "chocolate chip (city)".

A lot of gentrification and out-migration to MD going on there.

[underpants]

6. Virginia has no limit on how young a child can be and be left alone

It’s basically up to the parent to judge to maturity of the child.

State employees can’t work and be home with a child under 13. Unless they are just allowed to let it slide by their supervisors a kids snow day has to be taken off, even for those who already worked at home.

[Johonny]

8. I believe the graveyard is the correct answer

[twin_ghost]

13. Skin pigmentation doesn't matter. We are all Humans.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Frigging lobbyists.

Moscow money is on the Q Street Projekt.