[raybbr]

s is primarily a Hispanic issue because Mexicans can walk into the country.

I disagree. I think it's primarily an hispanic issue because of politics. That's why this rankles so many people.

I am not "beating you up" on this issue. This is how I feel about it.

[FITZ]

I think it's considered (erroneously) a hispanic issue because some believe that is a homogenous new race group --- that all SW Americans with Spanish ancestry feel some magical connection with Mexico --- when many haven't visited there for many generations and have no connections with the place, and they believe that because Cuban Americans and these Spanish Americans might be conservative, that every indigent peasant from Mexico and Guatemala must also be conservative.

There is no evidence that Mexico and Central America ever had anything even close to the Republican party --- there is no correlation to American Conservatives in those countries.