Percentage of Hispanic Catholics surpasses other religions in Texas, rest of Southwest
St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston serves more than 1.5 million Catholics living in the archdiocese.The share of Hispanic Catholics is growing in Texas and the American Southwest, recently surpassing other faithful followers to become the region's largest religious group.contends Hispanic Catholics in 2022 accounted for more than 20 percent of all people with a religious affiliation in Texas, California and New Mexico, surpassing the percentage of white mainline Protestants.
The survey was completed by conducting 40,000 phone interviews with a random sample of Americans. From that group, 5,864 identified as Hispanic. White Evangelical Protestants had been the reigning religious group in the Southwest for decades, a trend reflected in elected state office, in which white Evangelicals have long dominated in political positions of power, the Pew Research Center data show. White Evangelicals tend to beas they can often skew more conservative than mainline Protestants, the Pew research suggests.
Despite growth in their numbers, Hispanic Catholics are not widely represented in office, according to the Pew Research Center. Texas has never had a Hispanic Catholic governor in its history and there is currently only one Hispanic Catholic governor in the country, Michelle Lujan Gisham of New Mexico.
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