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Been reading a lot of strong reporting and analysis on how Latinos voted in 2020. Here's a quick thread with some highlights.
Start with @lfcarrasco's essay on Democrats mistakenly treating Latino voters in the Rio Grande Valley as a monolith https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Essay-What-happened-in-the-Valley-Latino-voters-15709715.php
Start with @lfcarrasco's essay on Democrats mistakenly treating Latino voters in the Rio Grande Valley as a monolith https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Essay-What-happened-in-the-Valley-Latino-voters-15709715.php
. @efindell points out the Rio Grande Valley has two demographic similarities with typical white Trump strongholds: lower incomes and lower education rates. And communities that are intensely patriotic and socially conservative. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-democrats-lost-so-many-south-texas-latinosthe-economy-11604871650
While young Latinos in Arizona were galvanized by the state’s strict immigration laws, the opposite seems true in Texas, where a once-reliable left-leaning region showed an affinity for Trump, @jennymedina writes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/democrats-latino-voters.html
The Trump campaign targeted perceived Democratic weaknesses with Latino voters, namely violence in cities over the summer and the threat of socialism, aka the “ghost of Castro-Chavismo,” referring to late Cuban and Venezuelan dictators https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-05/election-2020-latino-votes-democrats via @brittny_mejia
And @ceciliaballi and her colleagues did yeoman’s work spending hours conversing one-on-one with >100 Latinos across Texas who were eligible to vote, from Houston to El Paso, to dispel some of the pervasive narratives about Latino voters and nonvoters. https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/dont-call-texas-latino-voters-sleeping-giant/
