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The Trump backlash: Latino consumers wield new clout
Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | July 11, 2015 | Herbert Lash and Nandita Bose

Posted on 07/11/2015 3:46:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When Donald Trump described Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug smugglers last month, Latinos took to social media to express their outrage and urge businesses to sever ties with the billionaire presidential candidate.

In short order, more than 10 organizations canceled their deals with Trump, in what Latino activists are calling an unprecedented recognition of their economic clout.

Latino spending power will hit $1.5 trillion this year, up 50 percent from 2010, according to the Nielsen Co, which analyzes consumer spending trends.

At an average age of 27, the Hispanic population is a decade younger than the U.S. average and just entering the prime of its earning power, market researchers said....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hispanics; immigration; latinos; trump
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So we're past the tipping point and two minority groups now control the United States? Good to know, I guess.
1 posted on 07/11/2015 3:46:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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But they still need the palefaces to create the wealth to loot.


2 posted on 07/11/2015 3:48:52 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Revealed: How immigrants in America are sending $120 BILLION to their struggling families back home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271455/Revealed-How-immigrants-America-sending-120-BILLION-struggling-families-home.html

Seems they have more “clout” with their homeland.


3 posted on 07/11/2015 3:49:11 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I predict Macy’s will be in serious trouble in upcoming months.


4 posted on 07/11/2015 3:49:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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What if one day we said “okay, you can have XYZ states and we’ll take the rest. Anyone caught in our states after January 1st will wish they hadn’t.”


5 posted on 07/11/2015 3:50:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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No, these are just very noisy Communists posing as Latinos that the media is pumping up as an “economic power” that takes any and all criticism of illegals as a direct assault on their “la raza.” I’m sure many of them are racist like that, but definitely not all.


6 posted on 07/11/2015 3:51:01 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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By the way, I think Fox has already received marching orders to condemn and demonize Trump. Just saw an awful little interview where the guest repeated, over and over again without correction, that Trump called “all Mexicans rapists.”


7 posted on 07/11/2015 3:52:53 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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They are going to withhold using their food stamps at said businesses?
8 posted on 07/11/2015 3:54:03 PM PDT by Moorings
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I predict Macy’s will be in serious trouble in upcoming months.

Well, as my father told me, "better look for a new and better job," if you are correct. I am anyhoo, need to cut down on driving distance. I work at Macy's in the department that sells, or used to, the Donald Trump ties and shirts.

BTW, with all these different minority groups and so forth, again if I may bring my father into the debate, he said, "one day we will be in a civil war and/or breakup." and I do say he is right.
9 posted on 07/11/2015 3:54:43 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("I wish we were back in the world of Andy Williams." - My mother, 1938-2013, RIP)
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10 posted on 07/11/2015 3:54:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Vigilanteman

They have nothing. Go Trump go!
You guys are crazy if u don’t elect Trump.
Yes he may be self aggrandizing, but with that, he will do everything to show he’s the best. You Americans are crazy if u don’t elect him.
Sure, try to get Cruz on as a VP, but Trump is the ticket. Just get him off the alien rant. Just jump from one hot button issue to the next. It works for Obunghole, trump can definately go from one issue to the next and win.
Get him onto kicking the crap out of ISIS and hanging Obama for that. He will win hands down


11 posted on 07/11/2015 3:57:04 PM PDT by Melinator (my 2 cents)
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Fox News has been on board The Cheap Labor Express for years. They always back and promote amnesty candidates and denigrate those opposed to open borders.


12 posted on 07/11/2015 3:58:10 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Fox is at a minimum a Rino network.


13 posted on 07/11/2015 3:58:39 PM PDT by Luke21 (Go Ted go.)
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latino consumers have no clout

the ones that do know the Donald is right

the common run of the mill illegal is mostly unaware


14 posted on 07/11/2015 3:59:03 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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They want the whole enchilada.

North Mexico


15 posted on 07/11/2015 3:59:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Trump backlash: Latino consumers wield new clout

Bullsh*t.

16 posted on 07/11/2015 4:00:00 PM PDT by skeeter
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“Latino spending power will hit $1.5 trillion this year...”

That, of course, is unknowable, since most are undocumented; but if true, there would have to be many millions more than the 11 million figure that has been quoted for ten years. Of course, it is not true.


17 posted on 07/11/2015 4:01:24 PM PDT by odawg
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I said that because Trump was touting people who had told him they’ve destroyed their Macy’s card after Macy’s recent activities against Trump.

The Macy’s type companies are having a very hard time these days. Any adverse pressure could be the proverbial “straw”.


18 posted on 07/11/2015 4:03:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Nowhere Man

Don’t like the idea of you or anyone else losing a job these days.


19 posted on 07/11/2015 4:04:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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Revealed: How immigrants in America are sending $120 BILLION to their struggling families back home

Money that isn't available for investment in this country.

20 posted on 07/11/2015 4:05:36 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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