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Raster

(20,999 posts)
1. I shake my head in amazement, and not the good kind...
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:34 AM
Jun 2022

If you are not White and GOP in Texas you are a second class citizen.

Worse, the underlying racism in Texas is more geared to Latinos then Blacks.

Very sorry to say, but no matter your wealth, your position, your station, in Texas, a person with brown skin will always be a "wetback" to the white GOP ruling minority.

And frankly, CNN has devolved into FoxLite.

Funtatlaguy

(11,800 posts)
3. The reason the pundits usually give is Catholicism.
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:39 AM
Jun 2022

They say that most Hispanics are strongly anti choice and anti gay.
So they vote most on cultural issues and not economic ones.
Don’t know how we fight that.

jimfields33

(19,214 posts)
6. If that were the case, we would not have won them in every election, but recent elections
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:46 AM
Jun 2022

It is the economy period. I know that is not popular but it’s truth.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
9. Those that can legally vote here are also often quite anti-illegal-immigration as well
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:52 AM
Jun 2022

Generally feeling like 'well I did things right, the hard way, so f*** these people who are coming here illegally'.

So if Dems are painted as the party being soft on illegal immigrants, it hurts us more than it helps with the population of Hispanic voters.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,040 posts)
2. There's very strong superstitious belief in the Hispanic community.
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:38 AM
Jun 2022

As with other communities, lip service to that nonsense often trumps the party that actually practices the ideals professed by the mythology in question.

It’s hard to see the country as anything but doomed.

rubbersole

(8,640 posts)
4. Repubs will never help Hispanics.
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:45 AM
Jun 2022

One would think that the track record of repubs would supercede cultural factors. Lucy and the football 101.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,961 posts)
5. In my unscientific brain, it's not just Georgia.
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:45 AM
Jun 2022

It really blows my mind how ANY one could vote for a repug, much less women and POC.

Lovie777

(15,133 posts)
12. My opinion .....
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 09:12 AM
Jun 2022

NO (Georgia).

In south Texas, after mass murder, those that voted GQP are seriously having 2nd thoughts.

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