Comments on: Religion and Race among Democrats and Republicans

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By: Jerry_Park

Jerry_Park — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:16:00 +0000

I was glad to see the post on the intersections of religion and race and disappointed that they didn’t include their own results from their Asian American Survey they reported in July. I think if we add in the Asian American religious diversity in the mix we’d see that the Democrats are quite religiously diverse due to the much stronger presence of Asian Americans there.

By: redflagblackflag

redflagblackflag — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:09:00 +0000

The etymology of “Hispanic” comes from the geographical association with Hispania, Spain. I would argue that the association with the Spanish language is originally secondary to the wider association with all Spanish culture. Its promotion in the United States as a general term for Spanish-speaking peoples or the peoples of Latin America (I’ve never heard a Spaniard call themselves Hispanic) is a product of governmental racial classification. Both non-Hispanic identification and Hispanic self-identification as “Hispanic” could definitely be considered racial in nature. I would argue against it as an “ethnic” term in that it’s such a broad term versus, say, Ladino, Afro-Peruvian, Nahua, etc., although one could debate the nature of the term “ethnic” as well. I personally don’t like any labels like these, especially a term like Hispanic, because of its imposition and negation of indigenous culture (both through association with broader white, Spanish “culture” and the more particular Spanish language.)

By: stilladyj

stilladyj — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:07:00 +0000

“Hispanic” means they come from a Spanish-speaking country, so, most of South America, Mexico, Central America, and Spain. so it includes Europeans, Americans of European descent, indigenous peoples, whathaveyou. So, not even a little bit a racial term.

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By: redflagblackflag

redflagblackflag — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:01:00 +0000

“Hispanic” is definitely a racial term, not an ethnic group (although I’m sure some might disagree.)

By: hjfss

hjfss — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:26:00 +0000

“You can make the statistics say anything you want”, huh? That’s funny, because all she did was post them for us to look at. Sorry if the facts disagreeing with you makes you uncomfortable.

By: Lyshon

Lyshon — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Interesting, Hispanic is not a racial group, but an ethnic group. And as usual, you can make statistic say anything you want…..how about doing a pro life chart and a “pro choice” chart? Bunch of bilge!

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:59:00 +0000

for the Republican chart, you said religious Blacks and Hispanics make up the two racial groups in the chart, but I think there’s a third one: whites.

By: AM

AM — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:46:00 +0000

It would be helpful to compare this interesting data with a similar breakdown for the total population of the US. Does anyone know the statistics?