Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

==Demographics==

Knight noted that over the course of its history, the Nuwaubian movement had thousands of members.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=27}} By 2000, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors had some 500 adherents.<ref>{{cite web| title= membership and geography data for 4,300+ religions, churches, tribes, etc.| website= Adherents.com |year= 1999 | url= http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_650.html| url-status= usurped| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060824234407/http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_650.html| archive-date= August 24, 2006| access-date= August 19, 2020}}, citing {{cite news| last= Copeland| first= Larry | agency= [[USA Today]]| title= Race, Religion, Rhetoric Simmer in Georgia Town| work= [[The Salt Lake Tribune]]| date= 18 September 1999}}, reports an estimated 550 adherents</ref> Palmer suggested that there were "two levels of membership" within the movement. These included the long-term core, who stayed with York over the various transitions his movement underwent, and the short-term group, who often involved themselves with the AAC but later moved into more mainstream forms of Islam.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=51-52}} Different factors might have appealed in attracting converts; for some, the main appeal was likely the movement's black nationalist message,{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=59-61}} while others probably joined because they were looking for the "real Islam".{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=61}}

Based on her visits to Tama Re in 2004, Palmer concluded that at that point older Nuwaubians tended to be blue-collar workers who lacked formal education and sometimes had criminal pasts, while the younger followers were more "upwardly mobile", possessing university degrees and professional jobs.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=74}}
During the Nuwaubian phase of the group's history, one of its spokespeople stated that they also had white and Asian followers as well as black ones.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=154}}