do you know what the ethnic break down of catholics in America or what ancestry do they claim?

Question

I have recently heard that 25% of catholics in the U.S. are of spanish decent. I am just wondering about the other 75%. I think at one time Irish catholics were the ethnic majority in the U.S. I also know in the 1920's many catholic ethnic groups inter-married like many Irish-Catholics were maryring Italian-Catholics. So I'm just curious what percentage of Americans are Irish-Catholics, Italian-Catholics, German-Catholics, Polish-Catholics, French-Catholics, Mixed Ethnicity-Catholics etc. and how many Catholics are Converts that are decendents from some ethnicity that is not dominated by the Catholic religion.

I am just curious .

Answer 1

I have not seen any statistics like that.

This is what I have found:

In 2005, there were 69.1 million Catholics in the United States.

26.4 million (38%) were Hispanic.

493,615 (.7%) were Native Americans, or 12 percent of all U.S. Native Americans.

2.3 million (3.3%) were African Americans.

About 3 million (4%) are Asian and Pacific Islanders.

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