Rocket, rather than piecemeal quoting your post, let me just say a few things.
First off, at the end of the paper, the statistics still clearly show that the majority of Hispanics are Catholic. And I quote:
In each case, the statistics point towards a majority, except in the third generation under the National Survey (which allows for the unlikely possibility that 50% of those surveyed were all of the same non-Catholic belief system)
and the results of the paper's authors (which allows for a similarly unlikely possibility that 48% of those surveyed adhered to a non-Catholic religion or none at all), in which case the position of Catholicism as the majority could be questioned. But, for all intents and purposes, we can say that the majority of Hispanics are Catholic. Of course, not all Hispanics were surveyed. But clearly enough were, and enough have been throughout all of these surveys, to show that the majority of Hispanics are, indeed, Catholic. Your argument is not with this survey alone; it seems you have a problem with all of statistics.
Well, fine. Why don't we ask him? RedeemedChild, why in God's name did you unnecessarily mention race?
I actually did read about half the paper in an honest attempt to find out whether or not I was right, but I won't lie: I didn't read the whole paper. But I did read more than just the title...
Yeah, I was surprised that more than half of your post was just mocking me. But you have a good sense of humor at least.
Let's just agree to disagree. Our little argument over trivialities is taking away from the rest of the discussion.
Sigh. Really? Let's take a look at the role of government, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, one of our nation's Founding Fathers.
Now, what is a citizen, exactly?
One of Webster's various definitions that is particularly fitting to our situation (though each says basically the same thing) is as follows:
Citizen: a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.
Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but when has the world as a whole stood up and protected our Live, our Liberties, our individual Pursuits of Happiness. Never. We have our Allies, but that's different.
We can't be citizens of the world (as utopian and hunky-dory as that sounds) because the fact is that the world doesn't serve the role of government. Certainly, we're all part of the world, but we are not citizens of any government but that which protects our Liberties (which, for you and I at least, is the government of the United States, state and federal).