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A growing Hispanic vote still favors GOP
Boston Globe ^
| 3/7/2004
| Dario Moreno
Posted on 03/07/2004 7:29:57 PM PST by Kuksool
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It is impossible to understand Florida politics without taking into account the rising political influence of its Hispanic population. Hispanics are the state's largest minority group, comprising 16.8 percent of the total population of 16 million. They are also a sizable portion of the state's voters. Hispanics make up 11 percent of Florida's electorate, a number that has important implications for the 2004 presidential election. When one tries to analyze Florida's Hispanic politics through lenses ground to the prescription of other states, one comes away with a vision that is decidedly out of focus. Things work differently in Florida. Whereas Latinos are overwhelmingly registered as Democrats in other parts of the nation, in Florida, Hispanics are a pivotal faction in the governing Republican coalition. While in other parts of the country Hispanics vote at rates that are a mere fraction of the voter turnout rates of non-Latin whites, Cuban-Americans in South Florida vote at a rate comparable to non-Hispanic whites, and sometime even higher. Even the terms are different: Hispanic is preferred in Florida while Latino is favored in the rest of the country.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gwb2004; hispanicvote
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To: Kuksool
Who woulda thunk I'd bookmark a Boston Globe article?
We have an awesome Columbian county commissioner here in Mecklenburg (Charlotte), Dan Ramirez.
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posted on
03/07/2004 8:12:29 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(People don't just bump into each other and have sex. This isn't Cinemax! -- Jerry)
To: Kuksool
It has not been widely reported, but the parts of the People's Republic of Broward County that voted most heavily for GHWB in 2000 and Jeb in 2002 were in the SW part of the county, where many second generation Cuban-Americans have moved. Now if we can only get the Middle and Upper Class Colombians and Venezuelans in Weston and other areas of Broward/Palm Beach to register, we can make inroads into those two solidly Democratic bastions.
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posted on
03/07/2004 8:13:45 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Maybe the DINGO ate your baby!)
To: Clemenza
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posted on
03/07/2004 8:23:56 PM PST
by
Fun Bob
To: Kuksool
This is good news.
McAwful promised Jeb Bush was gone but he won in a landslide.
Let's hope and pray GW does the same this year.
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posted on
03/07/2004 8:27:29 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: Kuksool
Haitians are more willing to listen to conservatives because they did not experience slavery and Jim Crow Laws in America. That makes no sense. A Republican freed the slaves, and Republicans were the driving force behind the Civil rights Act, not the Dems.
Haitians are less saddled with an entitlement mentality than are black Americans, and appreciate America more, having lived in Haiti. That's why they are more likely to succeed, and more likely to be Republican.
To: Torie
It was my understanding that Gore got about 80% of the vote in the Haitian precincts in 2000. Gore carried Miami-Dade County despite the overwhelming Cuban support for Bush. Bush carried the Hispanic vote 50-48 in FL in 2000 despite the massive win among Cubans. I'm not sure I agree with this article. I'm sure Jeb did great in 02, but he thoroughly whipped his opponent. I guess my point is that I don't think the GOP will do itself any favors by turning out Hispanic votes other than Cubans this year. Non-Cuban Hispanics in Florida are still pretty dam Democrat.
To: wylenetheconservative
Bush got about 8% of the black vote overall in Florida. You are right. The non Cuban Hispanic vote in Florida is only marginally more GOP than the nation, which means that Bush got about a third or a tad more of it. And the Cubans are only about half of the Hispanic vote in Florida now. The Hispanic vote in the Orlando area is largely non Cuban, which is one reason that area is now the prime Dem trending area of the state.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:22:53 PM PST
by
Torie
To: BushMeister; Kuksool
You are both right.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:22:54 PM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: BushMeister
Haitians give 80-90% of their votes to Democrats in any given election. They are less Democrat than American blacks by maybe 5%. I don't know what you are talking about.
To: bray
Notice too that allegedly the way the Globe says Kerry can get the Hispanic vote is with Universal health care. Gee, thought they had that in Cuba, and it's allegedly (by liberals) splendid. For some reason, Cubans prefer freedom. They lack Liberal nuanced thinking.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:47:56 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Liberalism corrupts. Absolute Liberalism corrupts absolutely.)
To: wylenetheconservative
Quiz time. What black American subgroup voted with a higher percentage for Bush than Haitians (which was 20% versus 8% for Blacks as a whole)? What black subgroup voted more than 20% for Bush?
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:50:06 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Torie
I don't know, maybe Puerto Ricans if you consider them black? Please enlighten me.
To: wylenetheconservative
Muslim black Americans.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:52:14 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Torie
Makes sense due to the lack of morality of the Democrat party. I'm not sure we can count on that again this time due to the incessant whining of the Democrats about the Patriot Act.
To: wylenetheconservative
True. Bush will tank with Muslims in the US by and large this time.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:54:36 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Torie
That makes sense. One of my clients is a black muslim man and he's voting for Bush. I wish I could tell you the reasons why he doesn't like the democratic party but I'd get banned *LOL*
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:57:38 PM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: Kuksool
Today, Cubans are a minority of the Hispanic population -- just 31 percent. The rest are divided among Puerto Ricans (18 percent), Mexicans (13.5 percent), and more than a million Colombians, Peruvians, Nicaraguans, Dominicans, Venezuelans, and Guatemalans (37.41 percent of all Florida Hispanics).
- Puerto Rico - Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant and other 15%
- Mexico - Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5%
- Colombia - Roman Catholic 90%
- Peru - Roman Catholic 90%
- Nicaragua - Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant
- Dominican Republic - Roman Catholic 95%
- Venezuela - Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%, other 2%
- Guatemala - Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Does anybody see a pattern here? Is there any wonder why people from these countries might skew Republican?
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
Sorry to blow away your paradigm, but Guatemala is majority Protestant (yep it is these days). Actually, I am not sure what your paradigm is. What is it? :)
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:06:04 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Jorge
Hey Jorge, you should link this article to the folks we were battling last night
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:08:23 PM PST
by
Porterville
(random acts of kindness? Hate free zones? Kindness is in every act of hate I do.)
To: Torie
Guatemala is majority Protestant (yep it is these days). I got those numbers off of the CIA World Factbook. Guatemala was the only country in the list without a percent breakdown.
Actually, I am not sure what your paradigm is. What is it? :)
I'm sensing a joke here...
-PJ
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