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...But for the Republicans this is unadulterated good news. It vindicates "Jorge" Bush's hunch that aggressively pursuing the Hispanic vote would pay off. His familiarity with Mexican-Americans in Texas formed in him an instinct.... The Hispanic entry into Republican ranks comes, for many, at an earlier phase in their American journey than for other immigrant groups. Just think of the Irish, Italians and Jews, who generations after arrival on these shores can still reflexively pull the Democratic lever. Their vestigial loyalty is the result of what has been the Democratic Party's strategy for over a century. The bargain back in...

Mexican activists mobilize to push for Bush's defeat Mexican anti-war activists said Monday they were launching a campaign to persuade Mexican-Americans to vote against U.S. President George W. Bush though not necessarily for his chief rival, John Kerry. A leader of the "Stop Bush, Stop War" effort, Gabriel Pérez, told a news conference that the organization has gained signatures or expressions of support from scores of activist groups and individual citizens in Latin America and in the United States. The effort is meant to help sway U.S. citizens with strong ties to Mexico in hopes that they will be a...

Former Mexican-American farmer among NASA's astronaut candidates Thu May 6, 2:51 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Mexican-American who grew up picking cherries and apples in California with his migrant farmer parents is among 11 astronaut candidates, NASA (news - web sites) said. Jose Hernandez, 40, was selected among 99 people to be trained for three years by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA introduced on Thursday the 11 astronaut candidates it selected at the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside Washington. "The class is made up of pilots and engineers who will help us...

Symposium Q: Should the GOP undertake more outreach to minorities during campaign 2004? Posted April 1, 2004 By Steve Sailer NO: A better strategy is to increase GOP share of the white majority. Arguing that it's not in the GOP's best interest to do more outreach to minority voting blocs during campaign 2004 may initially strike you as lunatic. After all, the conventional wisdom is that Republicans simply must do better among minorities to stand a chance. Before the 2002 midterm elections, Karl Rove gave so many interviews explaining how the GOP was going to attract minorities that many commentators...

THE US professor who first proclaimed the global "clash of civilisations" has ignited a new firestorm with his claim that Mexican immigration is splitting the US in two. Samuel Huntington argues in a new book that Americans are acquiescing in "their eventual transformation into two peoples with two cultures (Anglo and Hispanic) and two languages (English and Spanish)". "As their numbers increase, Mexican Americans feel increasingly comfortable with their own culture and often contemptuous of American culture," he writes. The stark warning from the 76-year-old chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies coincides with a US Census...

Can you imagine the nationwide media uproar if a Republican congressman said Hispanics and whites "all look alike to me"? But this comment came from a Democrat, so it's probably news to you. U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., apologized Thursday for her racist remarks. Her outburst came Wednesday during a briefing on Haiti with Florida's congressional delegation and Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, a Mexican-American. The congresswoman, who is black, sat across from Noriega and launched a diatribe against President Bush. She claimed it was Republican leaders who were "racist" in their policies toward the failed black Caribbean nation,...

<p>Logan Heights and La Jolla are only a few miles apart, but economically the San Diego County communities are at polar ends of the planet.</p> <p>It's a lesson Fabian Núñez -- who will be sworn in Monday as Assembly speaker only a year after taking office -- learned as a child and that shaped his life and politics.</p>

Study: Mexican-Americans less depressed LAST UPDATE: 12/29/2003 6:00:52 PM A recent study finds older Mexican-Americans less likely to show symptoms of depression if they live in largely Mexican-American neighborhoods. It also suggests older Mexican-Americans' higher employment rates, family structures and residential stability make them less prone to depression than other ethnic groups. The study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is published in the current issue of the Journal of Epidemiology Community Health. U-T-M-B instructors Glenn Ostir and Karl Eschbach are two of the study's authors. They say their research specifically suggests that Mexican-Americans...

Can You Help America? Are you willing to give five minutes or more of your time to think about a solution to a very costly problem that exists in every State in the Union? If you listen to Rush Limbaugh on TV or on his radio show, you will hear him discuss how dumb and ineffective Democrats can be. He has been saying that the Democrats are only good at whining about problems, not at fixing problems. Rush says the Republicans are the only party that actually fixes problems. Do you believe this? FreeRepublic.com is overflowing with Republicans isn't it?...