The fine print is that they compared evangelicals to “other religious groups”.
They were not focusing on blacks and hispanics—who are the most anti-vaxx groups in almost all locations.
Many blacks and hispanics distrust the mass media as much as we do—for many of the same reasons we do—they find the messaging insulting and degrading. The claims that “the experts know best” comes across as arrogant posturing.
They—and we—have no interest in the elites treating us like cattle to be herded.
I read here on FR that the most covid-vaxx-hesitant people are PhDs, a group least likely to be other than white. They, like evangelicals, are after actual truth.
Perhaps unlike some evangelicals, PhDs can easily read the scientific papers and draw their own conclusions; whereas evangelicals have access to the oldest and best wireless network, prayer and divine revelation, as to whether the vaccine is right for them in their individual situation.