Latinos Go Conservative

Pajamas Media ^ | October 23, 2010 | Chris Salcedo

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Latinos are certainly not a monolithic group.

In some cases, it depends where and why they came. Cubans and Venezuelans left oppressive regimes at home. Mexicans from northern Mexico are very conservative with a strong religious tradition. Those from southern Mexico tend to be more liberal with stronger socialist leanings.

Many first generation Latinos rely more on government. As their children grow up, they become more self reliant and subsequent generations gradually become more conservative politically. The one thing that keeps many from staying liberal is that they do not have the same poverty pimping race hustlers that are in the black community.

[Westbrook]

> abortion, a practice that is dear to liberals and
> Democrats but that the Latino community at large finds
> offensive.

They should find abortion offensive. Reading Margaret Sanger’s (Planned Parenthood founder) screeds, you learn that those of Mediterranean, African, and Asian descent, you know, Italians, Jews, Negroes, Orientals, and “hispanics”, were her prime targets for population reduction.

She called them “the brown masses huddled in our cities”.

Isn’t that sweet?

What a darling!

The left has never met a genocidal tyrant that they didn’t admire. Even Hitler is being “rehabilitated” in their narrative, because of his pro-Mohammedan, anti-Jew positions.

[Tax-chick]

We have a neighbor, originally from the Dominican Republic but now a citizen, who has a handyman business. My husband talked to him for 15 minutes about why gas prices were so high, who had created the housing crash, and who wants higher taxes, and got him to vote for McCain for President. He even put up a yard sign.

There are no big races in my area this year - solidly Republican at city, county, and higher level. However, in 2012, if we get a *good* Republican candidate, I think it’s reasonable to expect considerable support from Latino citizens.

[Westbrook]

Here is a little note I wrote to a Latino brother in Christ who supports 0bama.

My brother, I love you in Christ.

But please consider the following.

• It is not the church's job to compel anybody to pay for anything, especially by compelling them through force of government. (2nd Cor 9:7)
• Dependency on government is the opposite of dependency on God.
• It is not for the government to do the job of the church.
• If the church is not doing its job helping and evangelizing the poor, then that is a disgrace.
• It is a sin for the church to support and endorse lawlessness.
• It is a sin for the church to promote covetousness and envy.
• Socialism and Communism is slavery to the government, not slavery to Christ.
• The current government endorses murdering children in their mothers wombs, or even as they are being born.
• The current government endorses the depravity of homosexuality. See Romans 1.
• The current government endorses organizations and cults that wish to destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews.

  Having a Christian conscience, I cannot endorse these things, regardless of the political party that advances them.

[mad_as_he$$]

The people you know are being diluted by the invasion of scumbags and criminals - mostly the lower life forms from the LA countries. I deal with then closely on a daily basis. Most have families that are living on welfare. The kids have no father listed on their birth certs so they authorities cannot chase dad. They milk the system for every nickle. Crime is rampant in the community which is significantly undereported due to ICE fear. The conservative Latino is a myth planted by the libs so conservatives will waste time chasing them. As I said there are some but they are not worth chasing they will become conservative on their own is they are really that way.

[Westbrook]

> This time, instead of fleeing, Hispanics are choosing to fight!

They have to.

We *ALL* have to.

The United States, in spite of all the attempts of the meddling busybody statists, is still the last bastion of freedom and liberty on earth.

It always has been.

[Slyfox]

Let us prey.

[ansel12]

Not this b.s. again. NR had a great study during the Bush admin about how far gone "Latino culture" really is. Hispanics that are libertarian or conservative? Sure, like me, there are a few here and there, but by and large "Latinos" are in a competition with other race-oriented groups to see how much they can suck from the system. Anybody that puts ridiculously unimportant and romantic notions about their "race" above anything else is never going to be a functional member of a representative republic.

The Hispanic divide is Protestant/Catholic.

Bush won 56% of the Protestant Hispanic vote, and McCain/Palin won 48% of the Protestant Hispanic vote.

[mad_as_he$$]

Ah the statistical lie.

Of the 41.3 million Latinos in the United States 2004, about 23 percent (9.5 million) identify themselves as Protestants or other Christians (including Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons). Moreover, 37 percent (14.2 million) of all Latino Protestants and Catholics say they have been born again or are evangelical, according to statistics compiled in the volume, Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (2005, Oxford University Press).

http://www.nhclc.org/news/latino-religion-us-demographic-shifts-and-trend

[the invisib1e hand]

Many Latinos these days are ‘conservative Christians’ and they have religious leaders that are leading the troops to the Right. I think it’s great. Fewer abortions, more family oriented.

They're the prototypical "cradle Catholics." And apart from the percentage of ne'er do wells that you find in any population, they're probably going to be the best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time.

Republicans completely blew the opportunity to reach out to them during the Bush administration. I said so then. I said they were being agitated by leftist organizers and that conservatives ought to reach out to them. But no. And, lo, it looks like 'pubs might find them "useful" after all.

[ansel12]

Your post wasn’t clear, what statistical lie, you never said anything after that strange exclamation.

The facts are that Bush won 56% of the Protestant Hispanic vote, and McCain/Palin won 48% of the Protestant Hispanic vote.

The divide between Hispanic voters is Protestant/Catholic, to keep ignoring that, and to keep trying to describe the “group” as merely “Hispanic” is to make it into an unusable category, and it makes it impossible to analyse what we need to do to effectively reach “Hispanics”.

[Minus_The_Bear]

The NHCLC is headed by the racist Rev. Samuel Rodriguez.

This is the same group that pumps out PR releases comparing conservatives to the KKK.

[ansel12]

They're the prototypical "cradle Catholics." And apart from the percentage of ne'er do wells that you find in any population, they're probably going to be the best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time. Republicans completely blew the opportunity to reach out to them during the Bush administration. I said so then. I said they were being agitated by leftist organizers and that conservatives ought to reach out to them. But no. And, lo, it looks like 'pubs might find them "useful" after all.

Is that some kind of joke? McCain only got about 22% of that Catholic, "best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time".

Your second paragraph is especially silly, Bush won 56% of the Protestant Hispanics, and won 33% of the Catholic Hispanics, why did the leftists "agitated" efforts only work on the Catholics?

[wardaddy]

it will take a lot more than a platitude laden blog from a conservative latino to convince me that most latinos are now voting GOP or conservative

it's never happened so far

and all that talk about family values and Catholicism is just BS from folks who must live in Whitelandia

I was married into Latinos...the only groups I ever saw approximate Conservative were older Cubans, rich South Americans fleeing war and kidnapping at home and a few Old Line Mex-Tex families of whom we have a few that freep here.

other than that they vote like Blacks

and “black” Hispanics like Dominicans and many Puerto Ricans do just that

pandering over identity is such a waste and we have fought over that here...bloody at times...for a decade now

[wardaddy]

I wish you could put your post on the forum’s header.

It is amazing how many freepers here are such sheeple over this issue...sad really.

God bless you.

Identity politics is a tar pit.

[wardaddy]

Voting stats don’t lie...look them up.

Wishful thinking about latino voting is foolish.

One thing though...I was just in Dallas and I must say your Mexican women are sure prettier than in Nashville.

We got all the short squatty Guerrero babes...you guys got the high blood Jaliscos

(formerly married to a lib latina)

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah. hey, nothing wigs out FReepers like a remark about Latinos that isn’t derogatory.

[ansel12]

Huh?

[ansel12]

You bash conservative freepers, bash Bush, ignore the conservative, republican voting Protestant Hispanics, and pretend that the liberal, democrat voting Catholic Hispanics are “probably going to be the best wave of immigrants America has seen for some time.”

Your remarks are totally derogatory, and are in an anti-conservative direction.

[Amerikan_Samurai]

There are definitely latino Conservatives out there, but sadly, the vast majority are deeply entrenched in the Philosophy that the Democratic party is the party of Latinos and the working class.

They still perceive the Republican party is the party for Mr.Whitey only.