I also live near the border and have Hispanic friends and Hispanic doctors etc. The problem is ---someone like Sanchez didn't have a chance before the recent massive immigration of people from Mexico ---who are not the same type of people at all as the long-time Hispanic citizens of the US. Most of the Conservatives of Mexico abandoned Mexico at the time of the Revolution. Those are very good conservative people. Mexico is mostly a Socialist country and these new arrivals like Socialism quite a bit. Hispanics voted in higher percentages for Reagan than for Bush because the conservative votes are being diluted out.
Reminded me of the old Churchill quote that goes something like this: "If you're young and you're not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're old and you're not a conservative, you have no mind."
Bottom line Fitz, they're still not monolithic, just as white America is not. How many leftist brainwashed white kids get out of college and get real?