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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Where the hell is the Republican leadership to welcome these folks? Is it because Trump opened the door for them?
This article looks like the GOP’s first twitch toward promoting latinos and illegals again, resuming where the project left off under Bush.
Over the years, Republicans have shown that they know how to do token diversity outreach efforts. The only thing they have persistently failed to do is field credible candidates in heavily nonwhite districts and make serious efforts to persuade and court the votes of minority constituents. 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.
This needs to change now because Republicans are starting to find more and more of these constituents banging on their party's door as the Democratic Party loses its mind. It's time to answer in good faith and show some manners.
A few sharp political reporters at major publications have noticed how South Texas Hispanic voters shifted strongly toward the Republican Party during Donald Trump's presidency. Trump dramatically improved his party's margins in South Texas, where a conservative Latina Republican came within 3 points of defeating a sitting Democratic member of Congress in 2020 in a seat that is 82% Hispanic.
In the time since, President Joe Biden's border crisis has won Democrats very little love in the communities of the Rio Grande Valley. South Texas Republicans have just lately started winning noteworthy elections for a change. They are especially excited about a coming special U.S. House election in which they might even have the upper hand.
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. She will then have the opportunity to run for re-election as an incumbent in the fall.
The hope is that this seat and perhaps two others in South Texas are at a historic inflection point. Texas Hispanic voters may be about to turn away from electing Democrats and toward electing Republicans. If this happens, it could spread. The potential is explosive.
(More at link)
Sadly I learned the answer to this question long ago. Republicans simply DO NOT want to be in charge. Give them the House, the Senate, the Presidency and and a nominally conservative Supreme Court, and they will do nothing and throw it away as quickly as possible.
When the premise of the party is to take away road blocks from people doing for themselves, it is hard to have an outreach for those used to having gov. give them things.
The only “Hispanics” I see trending GOP are Venezuelan emigres (Florida and Texas), Tejanos in south Texas, and to a lesser extent Colombians in South Florida. Younger Cuban Americans seemed to have gotten even more GOP, returning to the party of their grandparents/parents. Other “Hispanics” not so much.
As long as the GOP elite carps about “tax cuts” and “increased defense spending” which I guess they will find with unicorn farts they won’t hold on to any constituency for long.
This is a remarkable opportunity to destroy the Democrat party by welcoming Hispanics, and you’re right, they don’t care.
And those South Texas folks don’t want to hear about “amnesty.”
You’re right.
I think this is nonsense. I am not a Republican because Republicans pay attention to me and consider me important. I am a Republican because, of the two major parties, it comes closest to believing what I believe.
To modify what Republicans believe in order to attract more voters would be and has been very unproductive.
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became anti-gun? Hell,no.
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became pro-abortion? No!
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became pro-trans? No.
If Republicans want to attract various minorities they simply need to effectively communicare where they stand, remain steadfast in that stance, and insure that minorities understand the evil consequences of liberalism.
The “LatinX” stuff was the last straw, along with rewarding lazy people who don’t work.
You don't get it. A handful of Hispanics leaving the Democratic party is going to save America from the millions of Hispanics who come here illegally and vote Democrat. /s
It’s about time Hispanics got out of the democrat criminal enterprise disguised as a political party.
Hispanics don’t like the plantation the dems set up for them. Dems want Hispanics to be failures, dependent, angry, and to blame it all on Anglo-man. Most are not buying it. Most are hard working and have family values. They should ditch the dems.
So Republicans will get 37% of the Hispanic vote instead of 35%
Yay!!!!!
They’re being replaced by a million at the southern border. Dems aren’t worried - they have a new voting base already arriving.
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