Letters to the Editor: Latinos were part of a society-wide shift to Trump. Don’t single them out for blame
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Latinos were part of a society-wide shift to Trump. Don’t single them out for blame

LA Times  

Supporters hold a sign before Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally in Tucson on Sept. 12. Columnist Gustavo Arellano says the values often held by Latinos align more closely with those of Republicans than Democrats. Years ago, Ronald Reagan said, “Latinos are Republican; they just don’t know it yet.” Only time will tell if they have found their true political calling. Vice President Kamala Harris lost ground in almost every demographic, and Latinos were just part of that equation. But this election isn’t as much about Latino men being treated as criminals and rapists as it is about Latino men voting for a criminal and an adjudicated sexual abuser.

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Letters to the Editor: A ‘wokoso’ on the reasons more Latinos voted for Donald Trump
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: A ‘wokoso’ on the reasons more Latinos voted for Donald Trump

LA Times  

Supporters of Donald Trump wait for him to speak in Tucson on Sept. 12. To the editor: Gustavo Arellano has an interesting viewpoint on the evolving politics of some Latino voters who favored President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. I guess that I fit into his category of the “wokoso.” My mindset was created by the challenges of …

Latinx Files: What does Trump’s victory say about Latinidad?
4 months, 1 week ago

Latinx Files: What does Trump’s victory say about Latinidad?

LA Times  

One of the first people I reached out to in the aftermath of the election was Mike Madrid. After decades of saying “We get you, we hear you, and we understand you,” Latinos are saying, “We don’t believe that you guys are going to make anything better.” And they haven’t. I’ll vote for Bernie Sanders, this 83-year-old white dude from …

Latinx Files: Reckoning with the 2024 election results
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Latinx Files: Reckoning with the 2024 election results

LA Times  

Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. The pairing of identity with intrinsic morality denies the reality that the message of “those people are dangerous” can be quite seductive to people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, even those one might assume fall under the category of “those people.” When people feel they’re falling on hard …

Why Latino men voted for Trump: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Latino men voted for Trump: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’

LA Times  

Tomas Garcia and Maria Viesca-Garcia toasted the presidential win with an old fashioned and a martini inside the opulent, 64-story Trump International Hotel Las Vegas as the sun shone the day after a historic presidential election. “What we’re witnessing is Trump ushering a major realignment in American politics, when it comes to the Latino vote,” said Alfonso Aguilar, Hispanic engagement …

The role of the Latino vote in the 2024 election
4 months, 3 weeks ago

The role of the Latino vote in the 2024 election

NPR  

The role of the Latino vote in the 2024 election NPR speaks with Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, founder of We are Mas, about the role of Latino voters in the 2024 election. PEREZ-VERDIA: Well, let me give a very good example that in the past five years, you know, when we've done research recently, a Harvard study showed that the word Latinx …

Essential Politics: Who are the Latinos who voted for Trump? New analyses provide deeper insight
3 years, 11 months ago

Essential Politics: Who are the Latinos who voted for Trump? New analyses provide deeper insight

LA Times  

A group of pro-Trump Latino demonstrators gathers to confront a pro-Biden parade in Miami a few weeks before the 2020 election. Even in the Phoenix area, which Biden carried strongly, Trump’s Latino vote surged — up 64% in heavily Latino precincts in Maricopa County. Instead, Equis’ analysis suggests that Trump reached Latino swing voters in part because of a significant …

Column: Lots of Latinos voted for Trump. That should not be a surprise
4 years, 4 months ago

Column: Lots of Latinos voted for Trump. That should not be a surprise

LA Times  

No matter who ends up winning the presidential election, one thing is already clear: It’s all the fault of Latino voters. That was the narrative pushed — at least during the programming of this crazy election when Trump seemed on the fast road to victory — by liberal pundits, Democratic operatives and leftists aghast that Latinos didn’t unanimously go for …

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