A new survey finds Harris substantially ahead of Trump among Latinos, a sign that she may be rebuilding the Democratic coalition—which is essential to defeating him.
Latinos as a whole are conservative. They just aren’t batshit crazy.
The GOP knows this and even started courting them after losing to Obama (I forget if it was after the first or second loss). The GOP “base” wouldn’t have it though, so they quickly went back to anti immigrant status quo.
That’s a bit of a broad generalization. There are specific Latino immigrant communities that are definitely conservative for historical reasons, like Cuban or Venezuelan people who fled left-wing regimes, but Joe Biden got 66% of the overall Latino vote in 2020 so I wouldn’t say that Latinos on the whole are conservative.
I agree to an extent. I think many times, as humans are wont to do, they self-select themselves into different communities. Most of the South Americans I’ve met here are rabidly Mormon and will cluster together, avoiding non-Mormon latino communities.
There’s definitely a generational difference where I live among the Mexicans.
The over 40 ones are mostly conservative and wear pro-gun paraphernalia and have Trump stickers, and also speak little to no English. Which is sad because Trump and his kind would deport them or put them into labor camps without hesitation.
The younger ones, some of whom are recent immigrants themselves, pretty much all lean towards the left. Especially the women. Most of the latinas under 40 I work with would probably punch a man who told them they should be making babies and sandwiches.
I am definitely not Latino but because I speak Spanish (Mexico) and Portuguese (Brazil), I get to participate in conversations and make friends with more of my coworkers.
trump’s latino support increased when you compare the exist polls from 2016 to the exit polls in 2020 mostly thanks to evangelical/mormon/born-again-christian chicanos & tejanos and cuban gusanos.
it wasn’t enough to win the election and biden still enjoyed overwhelming majority support from all latinos combined and; if the course hadn’t changed with kamala’s entry; it might have been enough this time around to let trump win if combined w trump’s narrow leads in all of the battleground states.
i’m glad biden dropped out and that let kamala regain some of this ground.
Latinos as a whole are conservative. They just aren’t batshit crazy.
The GOP knows this and even started courting them after losing to Obama (I forget if it was after the first or second loss). The GOP “base” wouldn’t have it though, so they quickly went back to anti immigrant status quo.
That’s a bit of a broad generalization. There are specific Latino immigrant communities that are definitely conservative for historical reasons, like Cuban or Venezuelan people who fled left-wing regimes, but Joe Biden got 66% of the overall Latino vote in 2020 so I wouldn’t say that Latinos on the whole are conservative.
I agree to an extent. I think many times, as humans are wont to do, they self-select themselves into different communities. Most of the South Americans I’ve met here are rabidly Mormon and will cluster together, avoiding non-Mormon latino communities.
There’s definitely a generational difference where I live among the Mexicans.
The over 40 ones are mostly conservative and wear pro-gun paraphernalia and have Trump stickers, and also speak little to no English. Which is sad because Trump and his kind would deport them or put them into labor camps without hesitation.
The younger ones, some of whom are recent immigrants themselves, pretty much all lean towards the left. Especially the women. Most of the latinas under 40 I work with would probably punch a man who told them they should be making babies and sandwiches.
I am definitely not Latino but because I speak Spanish (Mexico) and Portuguese (Brazil), I get to participate in conversations and make friends with more of my coworkers.
trump’s latino support increased when you compare the exist polls from 2016 to the exit polls in 2020 mostly thanks to evangelical/mormon/born-again-christian chicanos & tejanos and cuban gusanos.
it wasn’t enough to win the election and biden still enjoyed overwhelming majority support from all latinos combined and; if the course hadn’t changed with kamala’s entry; it might have been enough this time around to let trump win if combined w trump’s narrow leads in all of the battleground states.
i’m glad biden dropped out and that let kamala regain some of this ground.