The Civil Rights generation and LBJ zeroed in on *VOTING* as the key. By contrast, Hispanics went to SEE the PERSONs they felt connected to without this translating over into the party/ideology. Shrub growing up with exposure to them knew that all it takes is personal ACCEPTANCE, a joke, a hug, a smile, even the tiniest bit of fractured Spanish. Look at the difference with Jeb, who is a cold fish, who speaks Spanish perfectly (unlike Shrub) and whose wife is Mexican-born: No connection, while Shrub got 40% of the ones who voted. Yes, sad to say but somebody like SHITLER has PERSONALITY that has attracted some Hispanics because it seems like no-b.s. or "real."
Beto is coming the closest to making a connection, perhaps more to the young generation of Hispanics - there's the charismatic JFK/RFK angle, his growing up at the Southern border, lots of the common touch, yet ----------YET, just on the verge of breaking through the anti-voting barrier, not perhaps actually breaking through. If he can't do it, who knows who can.
Plus, the voter suppressors are foolish, not needing to expend so much effort in suppression, since the majority of Hispanics SUPPRESS THEMSELVES. It's also significant that at the subsistence level of economics, politics is a LUXURY/abstract, since they have to focus on the day to day struggle and can't deal with philosophizing about how "issues" impact their daily lives - except for Choice, since Catholicism exerts indoctrination about this. Wingnuts also like to believe that Hispanics are "conservative" because of "family values" - well, as with most everybody else, practicing what is preached ain't always (often) the way.
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