Yep, baptized members of the Catholic church.
That is why they “convert”, they are not becoming members of a church for the first time, they are either leaving the catholic church for no church, or joining another Christian church.
It is ridiculous to pretend that the nations south of the US are not catholic nations and that the immigrants are not overwhelmingly catholic.
Besides, what does that have to do with this great news for our conservative, pro-life politics?
We should be rejoicing.
Furthermore, like I said above Protestant Hispanics, including Evangelicals, still identify over 50% as democrat/lean democrat (ie, much less conservative than white Catholics).
And Protestant Hispanics are what, a fourth of the total Hispanic population? Less than half of a fourth of 14% of the populace is hardly going to make or break conservatism.
I can hardly think of anything less worth rejoicing over.