Letters to the Editor: Did Latinos in Downey swing toward Trump or away from Harris?
1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Did Latinos in Downey swing toward Trump or away from Harris?

LA Times  

A home in Downey sports signs in support of Donald Trump last month. To the editor: Great story on Latino voters in Downey swinging toward President-elect Donald Trump. Voters in Downey didn’t run toward Trump; they stepped away from Harris. Fernando Guerra, Los Angeles The writer, a political science professor, is director of the Center for the Study of L.A. at Loyola Marymount University.. To the editor: One reason political strategist Mike Madrid gives for Latino voters moving right is that many of the younger Latinos don’t know or remember the fight over California’s Proposition 187 in 1994. But every one of them was alive when the last Trump administration ripped almost 5,000 immigrant children away from their parents.

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It’s hard to admit you voted for Trump in ‘the Mexican Beverly Hills’
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It’s hard to admit you voted for Trump in ‘the Mexican Beverly Hills’

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A surge of migrants at the border. Downey, a suburb about 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, has become a landing spot for upwardly mobile and wealthy Latinos, so much so it has been dubbed “the Mexican Beverly Hills.” And like many other parts of the middle- and working-class southeast county, the so-called Gateway Cities, it has seen a …

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