Use of the term Latinx by members of the U.S. Congress on social media has increased substantially in recent years, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
Use of the term Latinx by members of the U.S. Congress on social media has increased substantially in recent years, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. One-quarter of lawmakers mentioned the term on Facebook or Twitter during the 116th Congress, up from just 2% who did so during the 114th Congress. By contrast, a recent survey of U.S. Hispanics by the Center found that 23% had heard of the term Latinx but just 3% use it to describe themselves.
Read more here
For attribution, please cite this work as
Shah, "Sono Shah: Rising share of lawmakers – but few Republicans – are using the term Latinx on social media", Fact Tank | Pew Research Center, 2020
BibTeX citation
@article{shah2020rising,
author = {Shah, Sono},
title = {Sono Shah: Rising share of lawmakers – but few Republicans – are using the term Latinx on social media},
journal = {Fact Tank | Pew Research Center},
year = {2020},
note = {https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/24/rising-share-of-lawmakers-but-few-republicans-are-using-the-term-latinx-on-social-media/}
}