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"Latinos" are not a single electorate; their political attitudes diverge based on where they live, ancestry, edu, income, gender, faith, etc. As it happen, the Trump campaign has been very effective at reaching out to evangelical Latino churches. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-central-florida-latino-evangelicals-could-give-trump-an-edge/2020/10/06/39c1d824-fd19-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
There's sometimes some raging about the "latino" category. I happen to believe it's useful for tracking discrimination and caste-ism within the American context. But these communities have to be thought about regionally, locally, intersectionally.
When I write about "Latino" communities, I intentionally try to write about individuals with specificity, to contextualize them & their history. Even within similar communities there's a range of beliefs. Consider these voters in AZ (some voting Trump): https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/latinos-transformed-arizona-do-campaigns-see-them/?arc404=true
That is a level of nuance and intimacy that is almost never, ever given to people in these communities. A nuanced portrait of an individual and her community can get erased into a broad-brush characterization soooo easily.
Of course far-left community organizers in Michigan of Mexican and Central American descent are going to think differently about politics than evangelical worshippers in South Florida. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-rapids-latinos-biden/2020/08/22/b943f8c4-e23f-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html
Don't get me started on this bizarre "machismo" fixation. Aggregate political differences among Latino men and women aren't the product of some foreign idea from Mexico...they reflect American gender differences among American voters.
Last week we reported that Latino demographers & strategists believed Democrats had done too little to turn out voters in key battlegrounds. If you get beyond the days news at the top, this piece dives into why outreach matters & where it wasn't happening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-latinos/2020/10/29/f2247af4-1883-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html
