Majority Latino West Liberty is the one town in Iowa the Republicans skipped [View all]

[RandySF]

WEST LIBERTY, Iowa — Standing on the main red-brick drag downtown, in front of La Paz Market and La Luna Mexican Products, below the lamppost flags wishing passers-by a Feliz Navidad, you might think you were somewhere in Latin America … if it weren’t for the year’s first snowfall blowing through this sleepy town in eastern Iowa. In a state where only five percent of the population is Latino, West Liberty is the first town where the majority of the population belongs to the nation’s fastest-growing minority.

West Liberty Mayor Chad Thomas, an Obama backer, said that no GOP candidates or their surrogates have visited his town to appeal to the Latino community.

Even Latino Republicans concede that candidates in their party have alienated the community by not engaging directly with its members and their tough rhetoric on illegal immigration.




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