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Recent statistics on black evangelicals and America's non-Christian populations.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 4/15/2008 09:38AM

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4% Black evangelicals who identified as Republicans in the early 1990s.

8% Black evangelicals who identified as Republicans in 2007.

Source: Pew Research Center

53% African Americans who say that blacks who don't get ahead are mainly responsible for their situation.

30% African Americans who say that racial discrimination is mainly to blame.

58% African Americans who blamed racial discrimination in 1995.

15% Whites who say that racial discrimination is mainly to blame.

Source: Pew Research Center

3:1 Ratio of Jews to Muslims in the U.S.

7:6 Ratio of Buddhists to Muslims.

3.4% Americans who identify as Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu.

Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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Thomas

April 16, 2008 8:22am

I would like to know if the people who were surveying were white. Because if they were, the results are flawed off the jump. You won't get an authentic answer if the person who is doing the surveying is also the subject.

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