Latino voters begin to shift their historical partisan allegiance away from the Democratic Party toward Republicans. What Democrats have treated as a bloc is rapidly splitting along economic and academic lines, with working, non-college degreed citizens more strongly toward the GOP. How can conservatives take advantage of Latino affinity for faith, family, economic freedom and schools that educate rather than indoctrinate?
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23 replies on “Bienvenido al Partido Republicano! Latino Voters Swing GOP for Faith, Family, Economy, Education”
Loved Scott’s story about the customer and the rug.
I live in a city of 800K 87% Mexican descendant populace. They have traditionally voted straight democrat in EVERY election. I used to claim that these folks had no idea just whom they were voting. Until 2016 Texas had “straight Party” selection in the voting booth. All the person needed to do was to find the Big D on the first page of the ballot and it was over. I thought that when Texas did away with that process, folks would have to take the time to READ the ballot and actually vote by qualifications. The Republicans did pick up a FEW votes, but actually, each candidate had either a Big D or a little r next to their name in future elections, and democrats still got 85% of the vote. I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 2022 ELECTION AS THE VOTERS SURELY HAVE BECOME AWARE OF THE DISASTERS OF THE LAST 15 MONTHS.
If only Congress would devise a reasonable immigration policy! The congresswoman running for re-election in my district is making political hay, as a Democrat who checks all the woke boxes (Sharice Davids), with an ad advocating fixing the immigration system. That should be the concern of both political parties, not just an irritant to motivate partisans. Compromise will be required.
I have always had an affinity towards hispanic heritage ladies. I am white, of scottish heritage myself, and being sixty-five years old have been married twice to latinas, this last marriage having lasted for over forty years. In those years, I have learned to greatly respect this culture for their family values and work ethic. Are there some bad apples, of course, in what ethnic group are there not, but I hope the conservitive party comes to embrace this diverse, but strong group of people that for the most part reflect what our country was founded on. Do I support just anyone to be allowed to cross into our country? No, because without being vetted properly, we have no idea if this is who we are getting. Criminals, drug cartels, violent gangs, terrorists, human trafficking, and just plain lazy people and those carrying disease can bring terrible problems with them to this country. Most of the relatives on my wifes side are very much against uncontrolled immigration for this reason, because they have seen it and lived around it for some time in their own neighborhoods. I have witnessed it myself, and no self respecting family wants to live around it. We must stop the open border policy.
First of all the idea that Democrats are importing their own doom with their virtue-signalling ‘compassion’ by encouraging Latin American illegal immigrants from countries where the likelihood is they will become generational Republicans … Is too ironically delicious not to take a moment to savor and get the full flavor from it.
That the Democrat Radical Left is throwing over that kind of person by catering to the lunatic fringe is simply the best sort of seasoning to that flavor possible.
Consider too that the Democrats have been shipping those people to Republican “Red” areas hoping to dilute or negate the Conservative vote, where they will strive to fit in and get maximum exposure individually to Conservative ideology and there’s a clear and bright ray of hope to the Democrats intended subversion of the Republic.
There’s also the fact that statistically the Democrats may not even wise up to what they’re doing to themselves for several years to come, by which time it will be too late.
There’s one thing we can count on if this is the trend of the future. Once Democrats realize what’s really happening they’re going to become the staunchest closed border fanatics ever seen.
So much for phoney virtue.
As Mark Levin likes to say, if Democrats were convinced that we were importing future Republican voters, their resulting border wall would be visible to the naked eye from space.
I don’t watch Mark Levin much, there’s only so many hours in a day. So many commentators, so little time.
Democrats have a herd mentality and herds have inertia. Even after they realize they’re importing a net loss it will still take them a long time to change course.
Look how long it took for them to realize that “defund the police” was a stupid platform and cost them a lot of votes. Even once they realized that, there are still Democrats cawing about defunding police. The damage they did to themselves with that will be biting them in the butt for years to come yet.
if I were of Spanish-speaking ethnicity, I would reject the democrat party out of hand after hearing the babbling of the haughty but encyclopedically ignorant AOC who demanded that I be referred to as “Latinx.” Should we then alter the entire language to substitute the last letter of every every Spanish noun and adjective ending as they do in “o” or “a,” as the “ox-u-al Puerto Rican woman”.commands?
Excuse me; of course I mean “Puertx Ricxn.” La Hemba pequeña.
Mr. Ott, your tale about carpets brought back something I’d long forgotten. While working on contract for State Dept. I was sent to Ankara to relieve the permeant agent for DIF relief. Before he left he and his family took me to his “local Turkish carpet merchant.” We were probably there for 2 hours. First. came the tea, then began the education on carpets/weaving, how they were made, and why price span was so wide. The most expensive weavings were the smaller silk kilms, as they were woven by young girls and very labor intensive. Young girls fingers were small enough to tie the knots correctly, but many girls were finding life easier and better in bigger cities, therefor those kilms were becoming rare. He had one, about 18″ X 18″ that he was asking $30,000 for. This was about 1992-3. My colleague ended up buying an old wall hanging carpet sold by a Russian refugee. The salesman told us we knew it was a wall hanging because of two cuts on one end near the corners.
Amazing how much one remembers when just a few words are spoken.
God bless all.
FIRE THE POLITICAL CONSULTANTS.
If a candidate needs to be told what he believes and how to communicate it he is the wrong candidate.
The political strategist should be used for the following: How do I get people to understand what I believe? Not to answer what do I need to convince people I believe. It is far too often the latter.
I have no problem hiring experts to communicate their ideas, I don’t expect a politician to be an experts at everything.
But have beliefs and keep them consistently. I don’t need someone I vote for to believe what I do on every issue, but I do expect them to be honest about what he believes and communicate it well so that we can decide.
So “Latino” is now an acceptable alternative term for Hispanic?? I thought the Hispanics did not like that word?? Just trying to keep up with the culture shifts here.
I also had the thought that, given the difference in attitude of the more successful African Americans who came to the US from Africa within the last few decades vs. too many who trace their heritage to slavery times, we might want to also promote immigration of suitably talented and educated Africans, as well as endorsing “Latinos”. Whites will not have as strong an impression on our heritage blacks as perhaps other recent black immigrants may have, to high light, by their example, the cultural issues and impacts supposedly holding back the blacks from prosperity. On the other hand, we can also cite numerous successful black people from the 1950’s (and earlier) onward as examples of the same idea (from Tim Scott to Lester Holt to Obama or Holder or Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or those BLM con artists, et al.).
So glad that Scott pointed out in his closing that Latino / Latina is not a monolith and the people from different ethnic backgrounds have different learned experiences and we need to not treat them as one, but different individuals.
As just one example, my maternal grandfather fled Italy due largely to Mussolini and his fascism.
My paternal grandparents were from Poland and my grandfather left shortly after Lenin came to power in the USSR. My grandmother left largely due to the continued raids on Polish farms by the Ottoman empire to enslave young females. So at 14 her parents put her on a boat to NYC by herself. (Slavery was still legal in the Ottoman empire into the 20th century. I know we’re not supposed to interject facts)
They came to the same conclusion: the USA is better, but they were not a monolith of white Europeans.
Once upon a time in my life I worked with a Colombian man of Castilian Spanish heritage. He had no native blood at all but his family had been in Columbia for at least as many generations as mine has been in the U.S. Which is to say sometime before our Civil War and likely longer even than that.
Working with this guy was a serious eye-opener for my young self. I had trained in Southern California and had been to Mexico several times by then. This guy was absolutely nothing at all like the Mexican Mestizo types I had met before.
The difference wasn’t a racial one thought there were definitely racial differences between this Castilian Spaniard Colombian and mixed blood Mestizo Mexicans. The differences were cultural not racial, the racial differences simply served to highlight how different this guy was in comparison to an illegal Mexican immigrant.
This guy hated the other sort of ‘Latin people’ with a passion, again not based on race but culture. There were several other people we worked with that had mixed blood but they were on ‘our’ side and he treated them as he would his own brother. So definitely not a racial thing.
To lump that kind of “Latino” in with every other “Latino” is a serious mistake. A mistake that if he’s given the opportunity he will absolutely let you know about.
If those are the kinds of people Democrats are allowing to flood across our southern border then that mistake is going to bite them in the ass.
I am reminded of something Bill has said about people in other countries who are “our type”.
He is an American, he just happens to have been born elsewhere.
The left seem to think the following is US Policy wrt immigration.
Funny how they rarely finish the stanza.
This is the characteristic that separates the people we want to allow in versus those we don’t. If you are yearning for a better life with better living conditions made possible by better government handouts – you need not apply. And that is no different if you are born in Mexico, Guatemala or Norway.
But if you yearn to be free and make whatever you want out of life, your way. Yes, please; come on down!
Yeah, you (and Bill) are right that the guy I’m talking about is an intrinsic American but I need to stipulate he was (I don’t know what happened to him after we parted company so past tense) as much a patriot to his own nation as any of us are to the US.
He wanted his country to enjoy the same liberties and prosperities that the United States does and was very willing to work towards that goal. This makes him a natural ally to be aided and embraced.
I’ve also worked with Cubans whose forefathers never made it to the North American continent proper and so did not commingle with native populations.
I have to be very careful to say exactly what I mean here because if I slip up either way it sounds like I’m speaking as some sort of racist and I’m not. I’ve been over enough of the world and met enough people that I’ve learned people are just people and it is much, much more often the problem is a cultural issue than anything to do with racial genetics.
When your culture is significantly derived from certain Central and South American people who sacrificed human beings en masse thinking that was the best thing to do … It tends to carry a taint. That taint can be overcome but doing so is swimming upstream in a cultural sense.
One way to overcome that sort of thing is the culture and practice of Christianity. Which the Spaniards who conquered and settled those regions were well aware.
Culture doesn’t just die off and fade away. It tends to incorporate the new with the old and create an amalgam. This is how we get things like Santeria, a bastardization of Catholicism and African spiritualism in Cuba and Dia De La Muertos, which is a syncretism of Catholicism and aspects Aztec beliefs found in Mexico. (Dia De La Muertos is more than just a cute Mexican adaptation of Halloween.)
My point is that race is largely irrelevant and it is adverse culture that is the real enemy to be resisted and overcome. The Democrats conflate the two and use that conflation as a weapon against the Right. Our American culture is what is under attack in the culture wars. People who want to share our culture are natural allies and desirable assets. People who want destroy our culture are the real enemy and skin color has nothing to do with that.
Enemy culture has found an ally in Marxism but in nearly all cases once that enemy has triumphed Marxism is soon abandoned and replaced with something even worse. Which is nothing more than old fashioned despotism that gives lip service to Marxism.
Marxism in its various forms is nothing more than a mask behind which despotism hides to gain power.
Antigua, the ancient capitol of Guatemala, is roughly the size of Topeka, Kansas. It is home to 40 Catholic churches. Although a few have succumbed to earthquakes, they still stand. During the week holy week of Semana Santa the streets are filled with decorations and processions day and night.
I say this because these people do not embrace the elite leftist politics of the Democrat party. In fact, Dem’s skin-deep identity politics is proving to be a huge, perhaps insurmountable, blind spot. Whether due to willful ignorance or simple arrogance, they treat people as monolithic groups. People are individuals and tend to freedom in their choices and lives. What the Dem’s think is their strength is turning out to be their Achilles heel.
Dems: “Adios, breakfast tacos!”
You just assumed, cause he was a middle eastern looking guy, he knew something about rugs? That is so racists, Scott. I. Can’t. Even.
REEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
8^P
Well, now we know the real reason why the leftists want free “higher” education for all.
College per se is not the problem as much as some think. Try Engineering, medicine, computers etc. From my experience, and what I hear from others who are in college now, these degrees tend to be reality based and thus more conservative. Also they pay well. And where I got my engineering degree, they did, and still do co-op jobs in the field where they are learning. Experience plus income! Do da thunk it? The problem is degrees in theoretical fields and entertainment. More left orientated and harder to get a good paying job.
The STEM fields may not be very prolific in the future now that math is considered racist. That is what is being taught now at the middle school levels (insert eyeroll here).
Ah yes. Horrible racist math.
But I am confused. How can it tell? Math can’t see, hear, smell, touch or taste. It can’t even think.
I guess I’m not smart enough to just know this.🙄
As you can probably tell, saying math is racist is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. If one race is better at it than another, its not race. Its a culture that often, but not always attaches itself to a particular group of people, some times at least partially based on race. If a group of people are told to learn math and pushed toward it, that group will get good at it. If a group says not to bother, it won’t help you or it is too hard, that group will get worse at it. That applies to everything.