Demographically, Black Protestants have seen a slow downward drift over the past three decades, which is displayed in figure 1.4. In the mid-1980s, almost one in ten Americans was affiliated with a Black Protestant tradition. That share has declined in the past twenty years. Now approximately 6 percent of Americans are Black Protestants. Why the decline? A big part of it is that while just 5 percent of Black people said that they were religiously unaffiliated in 1980, that number has quadrupled in 2018 to 20.8 percent of the Black population—which, coincidentally, is almost the same trajectory
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