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Poll: Almost No Hispanics Refer To Themselves As ‘Latinx’

Tim Pearce
Poll: Almost No Hispanics Refer To Themselves As ‘Latinx’
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Though nearly a quarter of U.S. Hispanics have heard of the gender neutral, pan-ethnic label “Latinx,” almost none of them use it to refer to themselves.

The Pew Research Center released a poll on Tuesday showing that 3% of Hispanic people in the United States identify as “Latinx,” despite its use in academia, government, and the news. Pew conducted the poll from a nationally representative sample of U.S. Hispanic adults in December 2019.

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