Nonbelievers Seek Political Power to Match Their Growing Numbers - WSJ

Nonbelievers Seek Political Power to Match Their Growing Numbers - WSJ

Nonbelievers Seek Political Power to Match Their Growing Numbers

A coalition has kicked off a national voter-registration drive for ‘nones’ ahead of the midterms

By 

Ian Lovett and 

Erin Ailworth

Sept. 8, 2018 11:00 a.m. ET

HOUSTON—As November’s midterm election approaches, nonbelievers in the U.S. are trying to build something that has long eluded them: political power.

The portion of U.S. adults who don’t identify with any religious group rose to 24% of the population in 2016 from 14% in 2000, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.