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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI keep hearing it was terrible but Biden won 66% of the Hispanic vote. That's decent
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.htmlHillary and Barack were in the high sixties/low seventies.
Plus they're not a monolith. I know this from personal experience and learning.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)and you're right -- They are NOT a monolith and the party needs to recognize that fact and approach them accordingly.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)whathehell
(29,026 posts)lame54
(35,259 posts)What is happening to too many of them is anything but decent
Should have been a lot higher than decent
BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)soul-searching" crap when literally all sorts of fascist hell is breaking loose right now.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)whathehell
(29,026 posts)would WE need to "soul search"? The Repukes -- for SO many reasons -- need that advice.
BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)Joe Biden is supposed to ponder his appeal to some assholes in South Florida or Texas that liked Hillary or Beto a little better than him.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)what you mean by "ponder his appeal".
BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)shaved a few points off his returns. They were saying he had a problem with various Latino groups. Not even sure that's the case, but right at the moment we've got much bigger fish to fry.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)but it's hard to understand why the media seems to JUMP on the smallest mistakes of the Dems, while largely ignoring the huge one made by Republicans.
One of the problems with American journalists, is they seem loathe to "push back" on Right Wing memes. They just accept and repeat them WITHOUT even asking them for definitions of certain words and phrases,
A case in point would be "The Deep State". I almost laughed when I first heard
it, and despite it's silly, spy novel implications, I've never heard ANYONE ask it's question it's meaning, which, with continued use, is tantamount to accepting it as a reality. . As it happens, "The Deep State" means nothing more than government workers.
That's right -- government bureaucrats. My husband is a former Food and Drug inspector, so I kid him about being part of the "The Deep State" -- Were it only that exciting.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)There is a pecking order among the various Hispanic Countries that is in play here in the US. And within those individual Immigrant Groups,there is a Pecking order by which City or State from which they immigrated.
What one can learn from working with a Immigrant or Refugee will only broaden ones true understanding of how or why things happen.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Stepped between a couple workers who wanted to rumble to see which country had the biggest pair of Brass ones.
A our Educational System will never go there and educate the non Immigrants . We as a Nation is failing our own People as to the value of a Immigrants.
W_HAMILTON
(7,833 posts)Given that there are still many votes left to count -- and they are most likely to favor Biden -- I wouldn't be surprised if it shows that he did pretty damn well across most of the demographic groups.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)For historical reasons, they are vulnerable to "Socialism" scare tactics.
That said, I believe the country has more Mexican Americans and others inclined to vote Democratic.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)in key areas like Miami-Dade and the Rio Grande Valley. NV is also very tight.
JI7
(89,239 posts)and Tim Kaine lived and worked in Latin America and was fluent in Spanish. I remember people criticizing the Kaine pick but looks like she knew what she was doing.
So they were less likely to believe the attacks on her.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Yet they still vote for Trump. How does one go about explaining that to them when it should be obvious? Half of the Trump Train attendees are Hispanic. So, theyve got some hate coming from somewhere.