Latinos move towards pope, church and Democrats

By Anthony Stevens Arroyo, The Washington Post

A recent poll of Latinos for their religious and political preferences confirms Latino Catholics’ movement towards social justice and the Democratic Party.  These finding make it difficult to deny that looking at Latinos from the Catholic/Evangelical split is a more reliable predictor of political preferences than categories like Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban.  This tendency was first reported in the Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinas/os (PARAL) study I conducted in 2001 and was studiously reexamined in my 2012 book, Blessing La Política. The just released study from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) also suggests that affection for Pope Francis and the Republican rejection of the Affordable Health Care Act may change the landscape for Catholics and Democrats alike.

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