The weekly report on secular research and demographics
by Johnny Monsarrat
An update to this year’s Pew Study on the demographics of religion gives a breakdown by racial category of Americans and their religiousness. Only 68% of those with no religious affiliate are white, with Latinos being the second largest nonbelief race, with 18%.
Of course, most Hindus are South Asian, and most Jewish people are white, but did you know that Jehovah’s Witnesses are only 36% white? Even the Mormons, whose church had┬áa policy against ordaining black men to the priesthood, and forbidding black men and women from taking part in ceremonies┬áup to 1978, is now 15% non-white.
See the entire study at pewforum.org.