America's White Christian Plurality Has Stopped Shrinking, A New Study Finds
For years, religion in America was changing rapidly: The number of white Christians was shrinking, largely replaced by Americans who have no religious affiliation. Now, those trends have plateaued.
Two dramatic trends that for years have defined the shifting landscape of religion in America — a shrinking white Christian majority, alongside the rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans — have stabilized, according to a new, massive survey of American religious practice.
What was once a supermajority of white Christians — more than 80% of Americans identified as such in 1976, and two-thirds in 1996 — has
