I’d be willing to bet Hispanics in California with a background/pedigree similar to yours are conservative, as well. But those aren’t the Hispanics that are being wooed to Texas or the ones I worry about in Texas (or anywhere else, for that matter). Bottom line is, this article makes lots of points about Latinos and the “GOP”. I think we can all agree that “GOP” does not necessarily translate to “conservative”, even in Texas.
They very well might be-people from very old, hard working Hispanic/Latino families likely reside in the rural areas of every state of the old Spanish territory, unnoticed because we just go about our business like always.
The present GOP is just a party, as far as I’m concerned-not a philosophy-and the establishment wing of it has gotten way too far from conservative thinking, and too statist for me.
Fortunately, the Hispanics/Latinos like me don’t need wooing-our ancestors knew that “real” freedom has nothing to do with free stuff, and everything to do with free will-hell, that is why most bought passage on a ship from Spain in the first place. We speak the language-literally and figuratively, so we can continue to busy ourselves recruiting fence sitters with sound principles to vote for folks like Ted Cruz in primaries and general elections by inviting them to see facts...
Texas GOP is Conservative.
In fact many of the Dems in Texas are more conservative than the DC GOPe.