United States, irreligion vs. religion and demographics

In 2008, the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) reported:

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The 1990s was the decade when the “secular boom” occurred – each year 1.3 million more adult Americans joined the ranks of the Nones. Since 2001 the annual increase has halved to 660,000 a year... Regarding belief in the divine, most Nones are neither atheists nor theists but rather agnostics and deists (59%) and perhaps best described as skeptics.

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American religion/irreligion projections and race =

See also: Western agnosticism and race and Western atheism and race

Pew Forum reported about agnosticism/race in the United States:

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Atheists and agnostics are particularly likely to be non-Hispanic whites. Fully eight-in-ten atheists and agnostics (82%) are white, 3% are black, 6% are Hispanic, and the remainder is of some other race or of mixed race."

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For more information, please see: Western agnosticism and race

Projected racial demographic of the United States and religion/irreligion in the United States

MSNBC reports:

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Varied growth assumptions lead to different estimates of the speed and level of demographic change by that year. On the low side, the projection is 105 million Latinos in the U.S. by 2050 out of a total population of 384 million. High side? 119 million Latinos out of a total US population of 415 million. Under most assumptions, Latinos are expected to be at least 29% of the total U.S. population by 2050. Using the middle growth series projections, by 2050 the racial\ethnic breakdown of the population is expected to be: 47% Non-Hispanic white 13% Black 8% Asian 1% Native American and Pacific Islander 4% of “two or more races”... close to 28% of Hispanic\Latino origin.

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The article Godless progressivism will not be dominant in the USA's future indicates:

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Given the historic immigration from Latin America to the U.S, consider this report about evangelicals, proselytizing and Latin America: Evangelicals, including Pentecostals, neo-Pentecostals, and other non-mainline Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, are the fastest growing world religion by conversion... In Latin America the growth of evangelicals has been dramatic since the early 20th century... Time Magazine reported in May of 2013: According to Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life while “more than two-thirds of the 52 million-plus Latinos in the U.S. are Catholic, that number could be cut in half by 2030.” NHCLC also establishes that 35 percent of Hispanics in America now call themselves “born-again.”

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For addition, information, please see: Hispanic evangelicalism

Baylor University and projections about religion/irreligion

In 2012, Baylor University indicated that a significant amount of American nondenominational church members are checking "unaffiliated" or "no religion" on surveys. Nondenominational Christians, who tend to be conservative and creationists, are the fastest growing segment of the religious population.

The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? concerning American secularism:

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High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.

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See also

• American atheism
• Decline of American 1990s secularism
• Decline of atheism
• Global atheism