Could the GOP Lose Generations of Latino Voters?
The handful of studies on Latino party identification tends to emphasize its variability across elections as a result of the candidate position-taking on key issues, and the fact that parental socialization of American politics is nonexistent for immigrants (Wong 2000; Alvarez and Bedolla 2003; Nicholson and Segura 2005; Uhlaner and Garcia 2005). A common understanding [...]
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No? Okay. Well, I'll enlighten you then. Huntington argues that latinos in America are fundamentally anti-assimilationist. Liberal academics see "good" latinos as cutting one way politically, in favor of that party that promises "tolerance," "difference" and a multicultural polyglot nation. You needn't only vote for the conformist party-- made up of stodgy old white males, like Huntington, who want latinos to tow a white metropole line--to be deemed a monolithic voting bloc.
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Latinos don't have to all be alike to almost universally reject the party that gives the strong impression that it thinks they are all (except for the Cubans) illiterate dirty menials who should be trucked back over the border after they hand-pick our strawberries each season.
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More that they listened to unrepresentative elites and bought into the idea of "PoC" such that they expected Latinos to view things similarly to Blacks. It wasn't choosing one over the other. It was thinking no trade-off existed.
This thread has not aged well. Dems reaping the consequences of fetishizing blks at the expense of every other demo