Hispanic is the New...White?

Latinos voted for President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney by 71% to 27%, according to an analysis of exit polls by the Pew Hispanic Center, a Project of the Pew Research Center.1

Obama’s national vote share among Hispanic voters is the highest seen by a Democratic candidate since 1996, when President Bill Clinton won 72% of the Hispanic vote.



More stats here: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/07/latino-voters-in-the-2012-election/

Edited by melikey - Apr 16 2014 at 6:52pm

Yes, I did. If you look at the trajectory of minorities' opinions on a variety of social issues, they align almost in lock step yet are far more progressive than the majority of whites. Look at what's going on with the immigration reform debate? You don't think Latinos hear the dog whistles and slurs hurled at them on the regular? Immigration reform is also an issue that many on the forefront of the modern civil rights movement have taken up as common cause. That, and because I don't think Latinos are somehow self-hating as a people, is why I don't even begin to believe they will shed their heritage and start trying to be white anymore than any other group. 

Edited by mommykat - Apr 16 2014 at 8:11pm

But a lot of Latinos are white. They've always been white, not a new white. The majority of old school Cubans in Miami are white people. Shakira and Nina Garcia are white. Look at Univision and telemundo and tell me what you see...white people.

Latinos have the same issues and divides as every other group on the planet.

I guess thats just some hispanics...