I almost wimped out of publishing this, since it touches on the hot-button issue of contemporary politics that I typically avoid like COVID.

But...it's topical and touches culturally (or even geographically) too close to home to ignore, so here we go. https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/latinx-plaining-the-election

The simple explanation for the Miami flip even harder right than usual is some of the far-left messaging that's crept into the Democratic platform from the Bernie wing, and I think that's largely correct.

But there's way more to the overall story....

The 'Latino' label (as with say 'Anglo') is not totally devoid of meaning, but it's more misleading than helpful at election time.

More broadly, the Anglo world doesn't really take the Hispanic world seriously, preferring some stock character to a way more varied reality.

Part of the problem is certain axioms of contemporary progressive thought are just antithetical to broad Hispanic opinion: you just can't understand American Hispanics (many of whom fled disasters to be here) thinking that America is some disaster worth fleeing.

Going further, It's parochial (not say a teensy bit racist) to think that American Hispanics, many of whom have been living in the states *before they were states* reflexively identify with undocumented immigrants, and are rabidly pro-immigration in a sternly one-issue-voter way.

The obsessively dualistic racial worldview of the Anglo world is foreign to the Hispanic world (which is why labels like 'LatinX' have to be invented apparently). But where does this weirdly white-centered worldview end when half of US population growth is Hispanic?