The Progressives would have you think that Hispanic s hate the GOP and support illegal immigration. They also portray the Republicans as Hispanic hating Nativist because they don’t support amnesty. The reality is a different story than the media narrative shows. In their best showing since 2004, the Republicans got 38% of the Hispanic vote in the 2010 midterms. This is an improvement over the 29% the GOP got in 2008 and a shift the GOP can work on. If the Republicans can consistently get near or over 40% of the Hispanic vote, the Democrats will never win a national election outside of New York, Massachusetts and California. The key to win Hispanic votes is to appeal as you would to other Americans and argue the illegal immigration issue correctly. Make the illegal issue one of fairness to those who followed the rules, crime since Hispanics are the biggest victims of illegal criminality and national security. If the issue becomes one of some cultural invasion and demonizing of Hispanics like Sharron Angle’s ad did, then Hispanics will be turned off.
The conventional wisdom has already settled like a blanket over Washington. Allegedly, Hispanics flocked to the polls to punish Republicans for the Arizona immigration law. They “saved” the Senate for Democrats. And on and on. The conventional wisdom, however, is wrong. The 2010 election actually paints a very bright picture of the Republican Party’s relations with this country’s growing Hispanic population.
Exit polls reported by CNN and updated this week reveal that a historically robust 38 percent of Hispanic voters cast ballots for House Republican candidates in 2010 – more than in 2006 (30 percent) and 2008 (29 percent). In fact, since 1984, Republican House candidates have only won a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote in one election: 2004. This level of Hispanic support for Republican candidates came despite widespread pre-election claims by advocates for illegal immigration that the Arizona law and a pro-rule-of-law stand would undercut Hispanic support for Republicans.
Journalist Shikha Dalmia admitted in Forbes that the 2010 election “casts severe doubts” on the assumption that Hispanics will necessarily be advocates for illegal immigration. “Anti-immigration sentiment,” she wrote, is “driven by economic and other fears that have to be addressed anew for every generation regardless of its ethnic make-up.”
Read the rest: The GOP’s other Election Day victory
Progressives love to play divide and conquer. Their favorite tactic is to divide Hispanics and Conservatives. They create a narrative that Republicans are racist nativists, thus creating an image in the Hispanic community that is far from the truth. They also create an image with White Conservatives that Hispanics are some evil 3rd world invaders here illegally and in cahoots with AL-Qaeda or Hizballah. They do false flag rallies by illegals and by not teaching Hispanic kids English in schools, this creating a dependent class. This has work for many years, but finally Republicans called the Democrats bluff.
The Republicans ran a historic number of Republican Hispanic candidates like Marco Rubi, Brain Sandoval, Susana Martinez and many others. None of them supported amnesty and ran as authentic Regan style Conservatives. This won the GOP goodwill with Hispanics and killed the Conservatives are racist narrative. By the same token, Hispanics proved that unlike blacks they can vote for someone who is not one of them. In the mostly Hispanic 27th Congressional district in Texas, Republican Blake Farenthold defeated long time Democratic Congressman Solomon Ortiz. Blake is not Hispanic, yet won in a mostly Hispanic district. This demonstrates that unlike another ethnic group, we will vote for the best candidate. Hispanics are not a race, but a cultural group whose roots go back to the Roman Empire and are related to Italians. It is only the Progressives and their La Raza slaves who have created a Hispanic race.
The Republicans must continue to expand on these gains by running good candidates. Nativists like Sharron Angle, Ken Buck and Tom Tancredo need to be rejected and purged. They belong with the Race based Democratic Party and not the Republican party which is based on borders, language, culture and economic opportunity.
**COLDWARRIOR update: this graphic from Huck to illustrate the point, especially on the southern border:
Fom our Huckfunn:
Look at the border states of TX, AZ and CA on the RCP election map. All of those border districts are majority Hispanic and most of them voted GOP at the Federal level. Rodan, you might want to add that graphic to your post as it is illustrative of the point you’re making.
