[bayourod]

"You will never win Latinos over on the issue of abortion. It goes against our nature our culture and our national mores," Rojas told LifeNews.com.

Let's hope they never "assimilate" into the dominant pro-abort culture.

Since you're from a Catholic immigrant background, perhaps you can opine why Bush got 63% of the Protestant Hispanic vote, but only 30% (??) of the Catholic Hispanic vote? (The % was in another thread on this same poll)

[Coleus]

When immigrants come into the USA they are met with liberals from social service agencies (including Catholic Charities) who point them in the direction of where the social programs are.

After they are working, paying taxes and become more westernized, especially those who own businesses, they "generally" start to switch over to the Republican party, it takes years.

The Catholics are too touchy feely, many priests are liberal democrats where the Pentecostals who tend to be more republican are more in your face on issues of abortion and homosexual marriage, etc. I see it as a weakness in the RCC. The institution is great on paper however not too great at the pulpit. That's another thing, in the RCC a sermon is about 10 min. while in the fundamentalist church the minister has them most of the day to get the issues and message across.

[Coleus]

Since you're from a Catholic immigrant background >>>

From what background are you? I see nothing on your home page describing anything about you. Not even a state flag.

[Mark in the Old South]

I'm not Hispanic but I am Catholic. I think one of the reasons you see a tendency toward one party among Catholics (I think this may explain the Jewish vote as well) is a very strong tendency toward family tradition. Sometimes tradition is a bit like inertia, "we've always voted that way", over any logic or reason. I have Catholic friends who are very hostile to legal abortion but still vote Demoncrat. It is as hard to explain as Jews voting for Pols who you know are antisemites and Blacks who vote for the likes of KKK Byrd but bristle at the idea of voting for Reagan.