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Reagan used to say that Hispanics are conservatives, they just don’t know it yet—a view that Popkin echoes. “There’s a lot of middle-class, small-business-oriented Hispanics… But you can’t just eat a taco and give a speech in Spanish. It’s about your policies.”

Perhaps this is where Karl Rove got his idiotic idea of "Hispanics as the Republicans of the future." Sounds wonderful until the idea hits reality.
(1)There are vast differences of race, class, and education among Latinos, just as in other populations.
(2) There are very real national differences between Cubans, Argentines, Ecuadorans, Mexicans, and Guatemalans etc.
(3)So far, Latinos in the US have shown great social mobility ... in both directions: down, to compete with lower-end Negroes for welfare benefits, illegitimacy rates, criminal behavior, drug use etc., and up, to compete with others on the various Affirmative Action Gravy trains, and
(3) to integrate into American life and culture as the Cubans have done in Florida and elsewhere.

However, except for those Cubans of largely European extraction who have done so well integrating, the Latinos have been turning into perfect Democrats by an overwhelming majority.

The political life of the country will be affected as Hispanic populations increase to over 30% of the electorate. Just how the changes will come and what they will be is the question. Intermarriage is already well underway, Part Irish, Part Italian, Part Cuban Cruz is an example.

Hope it all works!