What’s Going on With Hispanic Working Class Voters?

The Liberal Patriot ^ | June 30, 2022 | Ruy Teixeira

[freddy005]

And Why Are They Leaving the Democrats?

Hispanic working class (noncollege) voters are emerging as an Achilles heel for the Democrats. Here are some facts about Hispanic working class voters that help bring this challenge for Democrats into focus.

In the 2020 election, Hispanic voters moved sharply away from the Democrats. Both Catalist and States of Change (forthcoming) data agree that it was around a 16 point pro-GOP margin shift (two party vote). States of Change data indicate this shift was heavily driven by Hispanic working class voters, whose support for the Democrats declined by 18 points. This pattern could be seen all over the country, not just in states like Florida (working class Hispanic support down 18 margin points) where they fell short but also in states they narrowly won (Arizona down 22 points; Nevada down 15 points).

Hispanic voters are overwhelmingly working class, around three-quarters in the States of Change data—higher than among blacks and much higher than among Asians. The working class character of Hispanic voters is even higher in key states like Nevada and Arizona.

Also in Civiqs data, just 13 percent of Hispanic working class voters say their family financial situation has gotten better in the last year, compared to 49 percent who say it’s gotten worse and 37 percent who say it’s remained the same.

In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, Hispanic voters give Republicans a 9 point lead over Democrats on the generic Congressional ballot. While the poll doesn’t break down Hispanics by education (hardly any polls do), it’s a reasonable supposition, given data summarized above, that Republicans’ lead among working class Hispanics would be even larger. (Some polls show Democrats still retaining a lead among Hispanics on this measure, but even those are down drastically from Democratic performance in 2020.)

[Seruzawa]

Lol. I knew a lot of them when I was in Los Angeles in the 70s. They are Americans and don’t give one whit about Mexico and all this heritage garbage. Some of them spoke a little Spanish because their grandparents had trouble with English but the children and especially grandchildren of the immigrants were as American as you or I.

[cpdiii]

I grew up on the border, a white boy that speaks Spanish and married to a Mexican lady from Mexico, she also highly educated as I.

What is happening on the border in relationship to legal Latino American voters is very simple. The influx of illegals is hurting them financially and more importantly safety. Those legal Latinos are being hurt by the policies of the Biden administration.

They are pissed off in the extreme.

[crz]

Oh they will..somehow.

The black population is now going to be nothing as far as political influence.

[Waverunner]

The driver is the economy... Many hispanics are self employed or employed in a small hispanic owned business. Small businesses are having a tough time as middle class disposable income has shrunk as the money is diverted to rent increases, rising gas prices and higher food prices. Tough times for all.

[arthurus]

Republicans already screwed it up by not contesting the vote fraud in 2020 and by castigating those who point it out and denying that any such phenomenon would be possible. Democrats have a commanding lead in the only constituencies that count, the Algorithm and vote harvesting/vote by mail.

[Clutch Martin]

“Most of the Hispanic members of my extended family are very religious. VERY!
This is just my observation, but I think the best way for the Democrats and other leftist to keep their Hispanics on the plantation is to outlaw the Catholic Church.”

20 years ago a Californio told me of a great wave of Catholics from south of the border would be quite conservative.

I haven’t seen that, but I look for clues. Perhaps media filters are keeping it under wraps.

[amihow]

As a border denizen from a cross border background, I agree with most of the comments.

However, there is a rather large number of Mexicans who have been radicalized with revisionist history and are committed to taking over the United States because they believe we stole the Southern border states and much of the Northwest of the U.S . They tend to come illegally and vote Democrat.

There are also first and second generation Mexican Americans who hold the same beliefs and have the same goals. They tend to have been propagandized by Mexican American Studies curricula in public schools.
We need to know the beliefs of our Mexican American candidates.