On the changing religio-political dimension of Hispanics in the U.S. correlated with social and economic issues
*Update (10/17): On the religiously unaffiliated
"While media reports of religious switching among Hispanics have primarily focused on the growth of Hispanic Protestants, particularly evangelical Protestants or evangelicos, the unaffiliated have experienced similar growth. The Hispanic Values Survey reveals that the growth of Protestantism among Hispanics is really only half of the story. The ranks of both evangelical Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated have grown at roughly equal rates. Evangelical Protestant affiliation has increased by six percentage points (from seven percent to 13 percent), while the percentage of those claiming no religious affiliation has increased by seven percentage points (from seven percent to 12 percent). The percentage of mainline Protestants have remained relatively steady; 12 percent of Hispanics identify as mainline Protestant today, compared to nine percent who were raised as mainline Protestant."
via Pew Forum
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