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There’s a lot to learn from this Black and Brown election chatter

“So, we need to take the Latino electorate state-by-state and we need to take a state as complex as Florida and break it out by different geographies and ethnicities,” said Matt Barreto. “And one of the things we found last night looking at the data is that in the Puerto Rican community in Orland, in…

Read More | November 13, 2020

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No, Latinos Didn’t Hand Texas to Trump, Experts Say

Matt Barreto, co-founder of political research firm Latino Decisions, said much of the mainstream media painted a damning picture of the nation’s Latino electorate. They should have instead focused on white voters. Rather than looking at the record-high Latino voter turnout, Barreto said analysts cherry-picked certain Latin-majority districts that increased Trump’s share, such as Miami-Dade…

Read More | November 13, 2020

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The Latino Shift Toward Trump in South Texas: Anomaly or Realignment?

While Biden earned more than three-quarters of votes in precincts with high Latino concentrations in Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and El Paso counties, according to UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, large swaths of the Rio Grande Valley are more demographically similar to areas where Trump enjoyed a great amount of support than to urban areas….

Read More | November 13, 2020

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UI Professor: Damage done by immigration policies ‘so tremendous, and so deep, it is mind boggling’

“It’s also important to note that this interlocked relationship between immigration and white supremacy is not new. Immigration has long been one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of U.S. law and life. So, if Biden is real about standing up for a U.S. future that is not defined by white supremacy, he…

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Most Latinos voted for Biden — but 2020 revealed fault lines for Democrats

Latinos showed up in record numbers, with an early estimate of 14.8 million by UCLA’s Latino Politics and Policy Initiative. Young Latino voters helped drive that turnout, with roughly 1.7 million voting early — a nearly three-fold increase over 2016, according to the political data firm TargetSmart. Women, who have suffered disproportionately from job losses…

Read More | November 13, 2020

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