You are *completely clueless* a cuban *cant* be illegal, the minute they set foot on American soil they are granted legal immigration status. Cubans tend to one of the more reliable group of republican voters in fla so dont crap on them because they dont buy mitts 11th hour conversion to social conservatism.”
You’re right about Cuban-Americans, but I think the MSM is misreporting McCain’s strong showing among Hispanics. In one of Fox’s exit polls asking why voters voted for particular candidates, most Cuban-Americans said because McCain had fought communism and had been a POW. No mention of immigration policy.
Not sure, but I think they said that Cubans and other Hispanic illegals and legals are about 50/50 of total Hispanics in Florida. So, half or more of McCain’s Hispanic vote was not due to immigration issues.
I don’t expect the MSM to highlight this since they prefer to say he was rewarded for supporting amnesty for illegals, and that any who opposed it hurt the Republican party.
South Florida's hispanic population is more economically/culturally/racially diverse than, say, Arizona. You have everything from wealthy Colombian bankers to poor Indian peasants from Guatemala who do all the schlepp work. You really can't generalize down there.
The two biggest hispanic voting blocks in Florida are Cubans in South Florida and Puerto Ricans in Central Florida. Most of the other groups have been slow to register. We really should cultivate the anti-Chavez Venezuelans and the white collar Colombians.
A damn shame that the only Latinos most folks on the west Coast and in North Florida encounter are semiliterate Guatemalans who can barely speak Spanish, let alone English.