Posted on 04/04/2022 9:27:59 AM PDT by freddy005
Over the years, Republicans have shown that they know how to do token diversity outreach efforts... One often gets the sense that some Republican politicians would rather just pack these voters into gerrymandered districts designed to elect Democrats, shrug, and ignore them...Trump dramatically improved his party's margins in South Texas..South Texas Democratic congressman Filemon Vela resigned to become a lobbyist just before midnight Friday. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has the power to call a special election. If he does, the Republican nominee will be favored to win and represent this 84% Hispanic district... There hasn't been anything quite like this since Southerners abruptly changed their voting habits in the 1990s, abandoning their ancestral Democratic Party and setting off a cascade of party-switching among elected officials.... It has been something of a puzzle to many liberal pundits why Trump's presidency could have been the catalyst to move Hispanics toward the GOP. After all, Trump is a racist, right? Some liberals bemoan the fact that Trump's peculiar form of bravado appeals to a number of macho Hispanic men. But the more plausible explanation is that most Hispanics are and always have been close to working-class white people... in the real world, they are demographically almost identical to the non-Hispanic white working-class voters who made Trump what he was in the first place. Sure, Latino voters may be a bit more religious than their Anglo cousins, and the country music they listen to while driving their pickup trucks around South Texas may be more likely to feature accordions than steel guitars, but the day-to-day political concerns and the economic circumstances of these two groups have been strikingly similar for decades — it's just that they were both always ignored and considered unimportant by Republicans ... until Trump.
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Let's say you have 8 Hispanics who vote Democrat and 2 Hispanics who vote Republican. Let's say you get 2 Hispanics who vote Democrat to vote Republican. You now have 6 Hispanic Democrats and 4 Hispanic Republicans. It's still 6 Democrats to 4 Republicans. If you get 5-5 it's still a wash. All the while millions are still coming over the border and will vote Democrat for decades.
Of course Republicans should welcome Hispanics but it's unlikely there's going to be a major shift. There will be movement along the margins which can change results in local elections.
Regardless of how many Hispanics change party every poll shows they overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Pandering by altering core beliefs is like drinking salt water when you're thirsty.
The Karl Rove belief 'Hispanics are natural-born Conservatives' has always been a talking-point fantasy.
Hispanics in Florid are a big part of the Team...and have been for decades. We welcome our brothers and sisters in the Hispanic community - and they welcome us back...
Hispanics in Florida are a big part of the Team...and have been for decades. We welcome our brothers and sisters in the Hispanic community - and they welcome us back...
For decades Bush League Republicans have been pushing the lie that amnesty was the only way to get hispanic votes.
The opposite is true and Trump proved that.
3 million last year, it used to be 1 million a year, now it’s 3 million and going higher soon.
The party switching is how a lot of these Assistant Democrats weaseled their way into the GOP.
We ought to be telling them that the more illegals that come, the worse this country will become, and it will turn into the sh*thole you left.
For most of my 24 years on FR the near-consensus among freepers had been “don’t waste your time trying to get black votes— they won’t ever leave the reservation(or plantation).” Likewise Hispanics. I’m glad to see at last that thanks to Trump, conservatives may be waking up.
Not all Hispanics: Cubans and Venezuelans. Osceola County is solidly Dem and sends Darren Soto to congress because PRs prefer the Dems. There is also a large Mexican population in central Florida and the gulf coast but they generally don’t vote.
There are a substantial number of very conservative upper middle class Hispanics where I live.
They are likely more reliable than your average suburban anglos and are a substantial part of the future of Texas and some other states.
Not bringing them into the fold is a recipe for disaster.
Y’all come. Welcome aboard. It’s long past time for our Hispanic brother and sisters to get off the Democrat crazy train.
There are a substantial number of very conservative upper middle class Hispanics where I live.
They are likely more reliable than your average suburban anglos and are a substantial part of the future of Texas and some other states.
Not bringing them into the fold is a recipe for disaster.
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Exactly! My experience has shown me that the most unreliable group for the GOP are White Suburban “Women”....They flip flop more than any other group!!
Here we go.
Don’t believe it. Hispanics will still vote Democrat over Republican 70-30.
What’s wrong with tax cuts?
Tariffs, not income taxes.
That's a good number there. Maybe 40% of Hispanics.
Tax cuts without spending cuts (and even increasing spending on “defense”) equals digging our grandchildrens grave with deficits.
He was around eighteen years old and had been in the U.S. illegally since he was an infant. He spoke perfect english, was very respectful, very productive, and he welcomed a conversation about why I would be a conservative.
I explained to him how his productivity had created wealth.
Together we had purchased ten thousand dollars worth of material and added his ten thousand dollars worth of labor to re-side my house.
I traded my twenty thousand dollars for twenty thousand dollars worth of re-sided house. I came out even.
The hardware supplier sold ten thousand dollars worth of material and came out ahead by whatever their profit margin is.
The young man working on my house ended up with ten thousand dollars in his pocket that didn't exist prior to doing the work. That, I explained, is how wealth is created.
I'm pretty sure he got the point.
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