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To: RFT1

I certainly agree with you about the NEW immigrants future voting patterns.

but what about current hispanic american citizens, which way are they going over this issue?


18 posted on 05/21/2006 12:56:36 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: oceanview

It depends how far back they go, at least in my first hand experience in California. Those of Mexican descent in CA whose ancestry go back 3-4+ generations are more of less similar to white ethnics, and in fact, intermarriage between this group and non hispanic whites is probably at least 50%. This group also is fustrated bvy illegals because it gives them a bad name, but the catch is, this group in California at this point probably make up less than 30% of potential hispanic voters in California. I think this would be true in Texas and Colorado as well.

Also my gut tells me those who have immigrated in the last 25 years and have become citizens came after anti assimilation forces took hold in the instituions such as churches and schools that helped immigrants assimilate in the past, and think of themselves more as their ethnic group still rather than Americans, I know recent immigrants who replaced working class white voters who left California in droves in the 90s is what pulled CA to the left.


24 posted on 05/21/2006 1:09:21 PM PDT by RFT1
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