{"id":49788,"date":"2015-03-09T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-changing-demographics-of-the-united-states.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:39:50","slug":"the-changing-demographics-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-changing-demographics-of-the-united-states.html","title":{"rendered":"The changing demographics of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course they (we) are still a plurality in the vast majority of those states, but the interactions between race, religion, and other demographic groups continues to grow more complex and less something you can just assume. Which I think should be a good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2015\/03\/06\/3630900\/white-christians-no-longer-majority-19-states'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/os1h-H2P1Mjxz6Wc93fuuyqvduBWviNKuFUkfKCgtNdEGUjqr3DQcFWevU7DS7d-mCe81qs4Vg8Nyrr1DR98OaRfjzgYCczNjtmHfjNj53DDLFac9hDsC-xLcQxNiAvIwBrzgPxetHV_lN0PtLXeaVodgruJLnYNo2WyKAhf0BQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2015\/03\/06\/3630900\/white-christians-no-longer-majority-19-states'>White Christians Are No Longer The Majority In 19 States<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhite Christians, long understood to be the primary shapers of American politics and culture, are rapidly losing their majority status across the country &mdash; even in traditionally conservative states.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4fuqcVtBLGh'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course they (we) are still a plurality in the vast majority of those states, but the interactions between race, religion, and other demographic groups continues to grow more complex and less something you can just assume. Which I think should be a good thing. White Christians Are No Longer The Majority In 19 States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-changing-demographics-of-the-united-states.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The changing demographics of the United States&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,533,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-demographics","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/when-a-majority-becomes-a-plurality.html","url_meta":{"origin":49788,"position":0},"title":"When a majority becomes a plurality","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-18 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"White Christians are no longer the majority population in the US. Between ethnic demographics and, especially, changes in religiosity among younger generations, they represent a \"mere\" plurality, about 43% of the population.Going from a tacit \"we're large and in charge\" position of unquestioned power to a headlined \"we're shrinking and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129677,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/the-evolving-demographics-of-world-religion.html","url_meta":{"origin":49788,"position":1},"title":"The evolving demographics of world religion","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Feb-16 1:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Making predictions based solely on population changes is a dangerous game, since other factors can intervene, but it's one of the few games we have. 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On the one hand, they proclaim loudly that the habits of the tribe, the mores of the \u00a0majority, should hold sway. \u00a0If the majority band together and declare your religion \/ politics \/ ideology\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marriage Equality&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marriage Equality","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/marriage-equality"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133735,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/church-and-state-and-demographics.html","url_meta":{"origin":49788,"position":3},"title":"Church and state and demographics","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jun-17 7:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's occasionally illustrative to our own nation (for those who have eyes to see) when majority-religion issues tie up governments in knots over providing equity across sectarian lines when the majority population sees no reason to do so. 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