In a nation that regularly bows its head in prayer — and that begins many public meetings with the God-fearing Pledge of Allegiance — atheists may be coming into their own. As the National Journal’s Paul Starobin reported last month, exit polling suggests that nonbelievers represent a growing segment of the U.S. electorate. In every presidential election since 1988, he wrote, the ranks of what pollsters call “the religiously unaffiliated” has grown. In 2008, some 12% of the electorate — or 15 million voters — identified themselves as nonbelievers. That’s bigger than the Latino vote (9%), the gay vote (4%), or the Jewish vote (2%), and it’s competitive with the African American vote (13%).
Appunti di un anonimo italiano
7/5/2009
