Yes white Catholics have started becoming more Republican in recent years by a slim margin, they are more republican than Hispanic Protestants but not by a huge margin.
This small shift among white Catholics has come too little too late after an almost perfect history of voting Democrat until recently, as white people that are Catholic begin to see the writing on the wall, immigration is replacing them in the Catholic church.
We all know where this Catholic trend is heading.
The trend in both America and in the Catholic church has been toward pro-life. The pro-life movement is winning this argument slowly but steadily.
Also, you must remember that the Democratic Party turned pro-abortion in fairly recent memory. It was only after it was hijacked by the anti-war crowd of John Kerry’s ilk that the Dem Party went south on abortion. I believe I read something recently about John Kennedy being solidly anti-abortion.
That is one reason so many democrats have only slowly come to realize it’s not the same pro-worker party of their grandparents.
As a Catholic,I am not comfortable with the division of Catholics according to “white”, “Hispanic” and/or any other specified “ethnic” group, whether by voting habits or anything else..
I live in a pretty densely populated area. My residence is in a valley/foothill part of my county, and in this area alone we have 5 (Roman)Catholic parishes, two Chaldean Rite parishes(Iraqi Catholics) and 1 Maronite Catholic parish (Lebanese). As a larger community, we don’t classify ourselves according to white, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, etc-—we all consider ourselves...Catholic. We often visit each others churches. We are united in belief. We are outstandingly pro-life—all parishes are committed to serious pro-life endeavors, and by this I don’t mean just the voting booth, but hands-on work such as pregnancy counseling centers, helping women materially and emotionally through pregnancies that Planned Parenthood would gladly be paid to terminate.
My parish ministers to people from varied cultural communities—Filipino, Hispanic, Sudanese, Iraqi/Lebanon, and in the mid-1970’s we took under our care a large group of “boat people” who had managed to escape Vietnam. However, we don’t separate ourselves according to color or culture.
We who take our Faith seriously and are there consistently to worship, to put our faith to the test in our daily lives and to minister to each other are NOT “liberal”.
We can’t speak for those who are not consistent in their worship and daily life.
As Catholics, we don’t separate our parishioners according to color or race. We belong to each other in Jesus Christ.
So—no matter how polling “data” may wish to separate us in such a way, in real time/real life, the actuality of how we live and act as American citizens is the true barometer of us as Catholics.