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Home Front: Politix
Why the Latino Vote Didn't Save Hillary
2016-11-10
h/t Instapundit
As someone who had, just 24 hours earlier, asserted that Latino voters would turn out in droves for Hillary Clinton and help save the republic from Donald Trump, I spent Election Night with huevos rancheros on my face.
I was wrong. Actually, I was right but I was wrong.

...Latinos did throw most of their support to Clinton--about 71 percent, according to CNN.

...Given the bad blood between Trump and Latinos, one of the biggest surprises on Election Night was that so many Latinos ended up voting for their tormentor. According to CNN’s exit polls, about 27 percent of Latinos voted for Trump. Exit polls from The New York Times put the figure at 29 percent.

...To understand the concept of "Latinos for Trump," the first thing you have to do is to accept that Latino voters aren’t monolithic, one-dimensional, or single-issue oriented. Like the Boston Irish of the 20th century, some of us may define ourselves first by our ethnicity while others just see ourselves as Americans.
Don't know about you, but I'm shocked.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#3  In my part of the country are a lot of Spanish families who were here before the United States existed. They don't identify with illegal 'Hispanics' the DNC and Obama have been importing. They resent taxes being diverted to cover the dumping.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-10 17:07  

#2  Completely anecdotal, but based on living in Houston:
When Jesus the guy running the leaf blower first arrives, he wants free stuff which means the Democrats.
When he has been here a little longer and has become Jesus the guy running his own landscaping business, he has some skin in the game and pays taxes. Now he leans towards the Republicans.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-11-10 14:51  

#1  because too many Latinos see themselves as future members of the middle class instead of victims/dependents/communist vanguard. Also because they figured out there'd be no middle class to join if the progressives win.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2016-11-10 14:12  

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