And what’s it looking like after 1988? worse and worser? You call them Hispanics and so I presume you are from the East Coast.
Hispanics Conservative- YES!
Latinos- NO, not so much.
I’ve lived around both sets and differentiate between them.
Hispanics that are primarily East Coast often vote Republican and Conservative. Having lived under oppressive regimes in places like Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and the like, these Hispanics vote like their lives depend upon it. They know Socialism and can smell Communism from miles away. But with their third & fourth generation Hispanic kids, it’s less and less.
Latinos that inhabit the SouthWest and Left Coast are nearly all Democrats because they want everything for free. Plus there is La Raza telling them to take over. La Raza is now funded by millions of dollars from our banks and Fortune 500 companies. It is a form of blackmail by the fedgov to finance anti-American racism. In lieu of huge financial settlements for ‘jacked-up’ transgressions, they force corporation to donate to La Raza and other anti-American groups.
These latinos have demonstrated that they are much more prone to violence and the gang mentality than many of their Caribbean and S. American Hispanics. It’s not fair to lump these people people all together. There is a huge difference in their educability as well.
I was born and lived in south Florida for almost 40 years.
The term Latino did not appear on my radar screen until about a year ago.
I'm still not sure I understand the exact difference since you get a dozen different interpretations when you Google both terms.
Politically, I use the term Hispanic because all the polls use it.
The Census Bureau now uses Latino but combines it into one category with Hispanic.
When the first wave of Cubans arrived in 1960, I was still in public school, so I got to know a lot of their children.
I think most people do not understand that the first wave of Cuban refugees was Cuba's entire professional and business owner class, and that almost all of them had European ancestry. They were massively Republican.
The second wave of Cuban immigrants that started in 1979 had almost entirely African and Caribbean ancestry. They are massively Democrat.
The Haitians and the Puerto Ricans are also massively Democrat.