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It got me wondering, cuz everything in their agenda this time out seemed to be about the Black Voter. Black Lives Matter as opposed to Everyone's Lives Matter or at least Minorities Matter.
I didn't really hear anything on the Democratic Agenda which addressed the concerns of Latinos, who in fact, now outnumber Blacks as the largest minority group in the USA. But their needs are no less pressing than Blacks. While some are doing well, many others are quite poor and their social standing isn't that great in many parts of the country.
In addition, even tho they are being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, I never heard them complain. Nor did they ever seem to be prominent in the social protests. They just seemed to go about their lives trying to make ends meet and make a living.
Has the Democratic Party diminished their future electability because they've relied so much on the Black Vote?
And will the Latino voters eventually coalesce around the Republican Party if the Democrats continue to ignore them?
Maybe like the Republican Party which became beholden to the White Vote in the South which is gradually eroding.
It's notable that the Democrats didn't win Florida this time. And the large bloc of Latinos there didn't vote for them like they have in the past. They voted for Trump, even tho he's been at odds with them. And if I'm not mistaken, more Latinos nationwide voted for Trump than last time.
I didn't really hear anything on the Democratic Agenda which addressed the concerns of Latinos, who in fact, now outnumber Blacks as the largest minority group in the USA. But their needs are no less pressing than Blacks. While some are doing well, many others are quite poor and their social standing isn't that great in many parts of the country.
In addition, even tho they are being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, I never heard them complain. Nor did they ever seem to be prominent in the social protests. They just seemed to go about their lives trying to make ends meet and make a living.
Has the Democratic Party diminished their future electability because they've relied so much on the Black Vote?
And will the Latino voters eventually coalesce around the Republican Party if the Democrats continue to ignore them?
Maybe like the Republican Party which became beholden to the White Vote in the South which is gradually eroding.
It's notable that the Democrats didn't win Florida this time. And the large bloc of Latinos there didn't vote for them like they have in the past. They voted for Trump, even tho he's been at odds with them. And if I'm not mistaken, more Latinos nationwide voted for Trump than last time.
From the Tejanos of Southeast Texas to the Venezuelan-American enclave west of Miami and the Dominican-Americans a few miles to the east, Latinos turned out in big numbers for President Donald Trump on Nov. 3.
Of all the election-night surprises, this may have been the greatest. Even in Maricopa, the key county that Joe Biden captured en route to flipping Arizona into the Democrats’ column for the first time in two decades, the Latino vote inched ever so slightly toward Trump.