Here’s a shocker for you </sarcasm>. In a new poll conducted by a GOP pollster, it was found that…get ready for this…Latino voters do not trust the Republican Party. Who would have thought, right?
Apparently, Latino voters have figured out what white middle conservative are still clueless about – namely that the GOP doesn’t give a damn about them except when it comes to soliciting their vote at election time. Numbers show that the percentage of Latinos who hold a favorable view of the Republican Party stands at a dismal 26% compared to 47% holding an unfavorable view. The fav/unfav numbers for Dems by the same group is 62/22. A full one third of Latinos say they would never vote for a Republican.
The big issue is of course immigration reform and matters such as the Arizona immigration law have only helped in pushing Latinos further toward the Democratic Party. Latinos are looking for true reform and a reasonable pathway to citizenship for illegals. There is nothing Republicans are saying these days which would indicate that that’s about to happen. The overall tone from conservatives in terms of immigrants (Latino and otherwise) tends to come off as pure disdain and racist in nature. The Republican ‘big tent’ approach isn’t working for Hispanics as much as it does for white, Christian, gun-loving, minority-hating, Americans.
Here’s a list of concerns and complaints which Latino have about the GOP. They know them well.
So why is any of this a big deal? Well because Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the United States comprising a full 16% of the population. That means 1 out of every 6 people living in the U.S. is of Hispanic origin and the numbers only get worse for the GOP. The median age for Hispanics is 27.4 years compared to 36 years for the general population. More than 1 out of every 5 American children is Hispanic (22%) and by the year 2050 that number is projected to be 39%. By that same year, 1 out of every 4 people in the U.S. will be Hispanic.
Republicans might not like it but 48.4 million people living in the United States are Hispanic and they’re not fond of the policies and rhetoric they’re hearing from conservatives. Unless Republicans drastically change their views, they’re looking at full time minority statues in the years and decades ahead.
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I live in a small community that is mostly Hispanic in population. I think I will start a program of distributing free Viagra and aphrodisiacs.
Most of my Mexican friends are really great people, hard working and honest.
@Charlie: *laughs* You don’t need to go THAT far. In fact, wouldn’t it be better if you mentored youth in your neighborhood and tried to ensure that as many kids (of all races, thank you!) find meaningful employment and try pursuing a higher education? I’d rather have lots of EDUCATED voters than ones that just vote on a hunch or do it because somebody else tells ‘em to.
Every voter a WANTED voter, right? ;)
My question is “will they be expendable (the Hispanics)” as the blacks and Hispanics were in the Vietnam war as in this new war we are facing in Libya?
The blacks and hispanics were always in the front line…. We shall see the stats of all these wars and see how many have died of each race.
I feel very serious about the war that has developed. Well the French decided to take lead and not wait for the coalition and guess what? One of their fighter jets is down. Well, well, the front line gets it as you say @Sofia.
Now why would the French start without the coalition? Why don’t they just take over the whole mission and leave the USA alone.
@ Circie…LOL, I help many of them with their English and any other problems they might have, adults included. I have filled out enough school and government forms that I have become expert at the process.
Most of the families value education very highly and want their children to do well. I often drive past the community’s middle school and see a Hispanic child’s name on the marque as “student of the week”, an honor which makes their parents, and me, very proud.
I ask no reward for my services, they are gratis, but I have been given some of the tastiest tamales and chicken mole I ever ate.
Several States are now reporting irregularities when it comes to elections. New Mexico, Texas has reported illegal immigrants are voting in vast numbers, using fraudulent methods to change the direction of elections. Absentee ballots are the easiest and simplest method to forge and many States now are changing their voting laws and requesting registrants must display at least two types of government ID, to be cross-referenced with data bases.
@ Brittanicus, The numbers voting illegally in Texas couldn’t be too vast. Since the 1970s the Republican Party has grown more prominent within the state, and is now the state’s dominant political party. This trend mirrors a national political realignment that has seen the once solidly Democratic South become increasingly dominated by Republicans. Methinks, as a Republican scare tactic, (would they do something like that?) numbers are being grossly exaggerated.
Since both the governor and lt. governor of New Mexico are Republicans the vast numbers of illegal votes seem to have been cast for republicans. Just can’t figure out those darn illegal aliens it seems.
I have known a few illegals myself and the last thing they would have wanted to do would be to cast suspicion on themselves by trying to vote
@Charlie, of course the Repubs are exaggerating the numbers, it’s what they do. exaggerate and flat out lie about almost everything! It’s their paradigm
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-Joseph Goebbels
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
Latinos figured out the Republican party doesn’t give a damn about them other than their votes? Will the Log Cabin Republicans ever figure out the same thing? I’m thinking no.
The majority of Americans except for a few, have no problem with any race no matter what country they originate from? It’s the illegal immigrant invasion we do not like? Simple as that.
@Brittanicus: “It’s the illegal immigrant invasion we do not like? Simple as that”. We need to secure our borders, no doubt. I just don’t think we should deport all illegals. Some have been here for yrs. and have no place to go. Maybe we should look at each case individually. I’m sure many haven’t committed any crimes other than coming here illegally. Some have been here since childhood and this is the only home they know. I wish there was a solution all could agree on but I’m afraid there isn’t.
We need to all remember that our country was founded by a group of men who essentially did something illegal.