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Matt A. Barreto in The New York Times: “Republican Review of Arizona Vote Fails to Show Stolen Election”

“Those people stormed the Capitol because they believed the election was fraudulent when it was not,” said Matt A. Barreto, a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and faculty director of the Voting Rights Project. “And had we had leaders who just accepted the results and encouraged their team to…

Chon Noriega in The San Diego Union-Tribune: “Here’s why the first official figures on Latinos in the media look better than some expected”

Professor Chon Noriega, who was not involved in the study and is the former director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, cautioned that the GAO figures could leave a rosier impression than the reality of where Latinos stand in the media. Significantly, the GAO did not delineate between jobs in English or mainstream-targeted media…

Laura Gomez in KQED: “Fewer Latinos Identified as White on 2020 Census”

In the 2020 Census, the number of Latinos who selected “white” as their race dropped to 20% from 53% in 2010, at the same time more Latinos selected “two or more races” or “other” as their racial category. Laura Gomez, professor of law, sociology and Chicana/Chicano & Central American Studies at UCLA, and other experts…

Sonja Diaz in San Francisco Chronicle: “What Republicans and Democrats learned from the recall that will help them in the midterms”

Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute is doing deep dives into the Latino vote. In Merced County, roughly 3 in 4 Latino voters opposed the recall, Diaz said, which helped offset the 3 in 4 white voters there who supported it.

Sonja Diaz in Los Angeles Times: “The Central Valley gives California a recall rarity: a squeaker of a race”

Data from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute show that Latino residents of Merced County voted 75% against the recall, while white voters there came in at 75% in favor of ousting Newsom. The takeaway, said Sonja Diaz, the founder and director of the UCLA center, is that California’s electorate is increasingly influenced by…

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