Americans surprised to learn about increasing Hispanic support for Trump should read up on blanquismo, casta, and ethnic politics in Latin America. Not all latin@s/hispanics are the same. Many identify as white. Class or urban-rural politics often has an invisible mestizo/indígena racial element.
Yes! I’ve been saying this for years now. philpapers.org/rec/MENLAT-2
Given the oncoming demographic changes—which are primarily driven by the growth in the Latinx community—the United States is predicted to become a minority-majority country by around 2050. This seems ...
while this is true, vast majority of Hispanic voters in United States are post-1968 immigrants or their descendants. Not sure how,casta politics play out when those with a cultural background of casta politics are enmeshed in a majority-white larger assimilation context, but would be interesting.
Maybe, but those hispanics should better understand the country they live in.
PS. The transformation of many hispanics/latin@s into whites, African-Americans, and Indigenous in America will make the heads of the "demography is destiny" peddlers' spin. Go ask Guatemalans, Dominicans, Argentinians, Ecuadorians, even Mexicans, how racially diverse their elites are. I'll wait.
There are politically important subsets of Republican-leaning hispanic like Florida Cubans and Tajano's in the Rio Grande Valley , but I personally am waiting for data after the election to see how if there is an large, overall rightward shift right among all american hispanics
Exactamente! We don’t vote como un bloque.
A good many Hispanics are conservative Evangelical Christians. (The days of Hispanic = Roman Catholic are long gone.) They identify more closely with their religion than with their ethnicity.
Eh... There's no secret about Anti-Black racist attitudes across the various Hispanic communities but the real issue in my opinion will always come down to Christianity, whatever sect. Catholic or Charismatic the results are always gonna be Reactionary the deeper in a person goes.