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Hispanics open to voting for Rubio but very leery of the Republican Party

by Phantom Ace ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Republican Party at March 25th, 2013 - 9:17 am

If there is any proof that the Republican brand is damage, this article is the smoking gun. They interview various Hispanics about voting for Marco Rubio. Many expressed they would or look at him. What is holding back some of these Hispanics, is the bad image of the Republican Party.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Sorry, Washington superstar, Time magazine coverboy and hip-hop maven, she’s never heard of you.
“Marco Rubio?” said 28-year-old Memorie Annese, taking her daughters to a public library in this city tucked amid soaring mountains and the Rio Grande.
But the Mexican-American, school bus-driving union member who voted for President Barack Obama didn’t hesitate when asked if she would consider a Republican candidate with immigrant roots.
“Heck yeah — if he’s good,” Annese said. “There’s a connection.”

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Interviews with voters in Hispanic-rich New Mexico, which Obama won twice, and Texas, a Republican bastion inching Democratic, suggest that Rubio could inspire goodwill and pride among minorities who shunned the GOP in the past two presidential elections.
“Having a president who is Hispanic, I can’t even explain it,” said Esmirna Corona, a college student in El Paso. “If people see Rubio is Hispanic, they’ll take time to check him out. With Mitt Romney, I was like no. Then I looked at his position on immigration and was like definitely not.”

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Voters who say they would be drawn to Rubio through culture insist it would take more than that to actually pull the lever. They consistently describe the GOP as out of touch, the party for the rich — qualities reinforced by the stiff, multimillionaire Romney.

“We identify with Democrats because they are empathetic to our needs. With the budget, the first thing Republicans try to cut are the social programs,” said Corona, 20, the El Paso college student, praising what Head Start did for her as a child. She said her peers disagree with Republicans on a range of social issues, including gay marriage

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Honestly, I would consider him because he’s Hispanic,” said Julio Sanchez, 19, a business marketing major at the University of Texas at El Paso. “I could always see myself voting Republican. The reason I’m Democrat is that’s the way I was raised.”
“It’s ingrained in us,” said Gabriel Lira, 24, who was sitting at a table in the same coffee shop as Sanchez. “Growing up, it was ’Republicans rich, Democrats help the middle class.’ I’m interested in having a Hispanic president, but if he’s going to be against everything I want, obviously I’m not going to vote for him.”

The Republican Party really has an image problem. They never explain how their policies would help the Middle Class while it doesn’t help that the last two Republican Presidents were economic failures. The perception that Hispanics have of Republicans is part of a larger image problem the GOP has with the country as a whole.

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The difference between a La Raza slave and a Rightwing Hispanic

by Phantom Ace ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Music at February 27th, 2012 - 10:35 pm

Latin or Latino is a term that is often misused in this country. Outside of the US Latin/Latino refers to Hispanics, Italians, Portuguese, Filipinos and even French. Inside the US it refers only to Hispanics. Even within this nation it means different things to different people. To the La Raza collaborator slaves of the White Progressive scum it means a victim group. To Rightwing Hispanics it means a proud culture that on two occasions (Rome and Spain) dominated the Earth. It’s just a cultural definition and doesn’t imply inferiority and victimhood.

Miami born Cuban American, Pitbull, is of the opinion that Latin is just an ethnic group and that it doesn’t mean you are owed anything. He describes how his family made it in America and that being Latin was not a disadvantage.

Fast forward to 1:39 in this clip where he describes what Latin means to him.

Watch this video on YouTube.

Spot on Pitbull. Our ancestors were conquerors, we don’t need any help to make it here. This is the United States of America.

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Majority of Hispanics consider themselves White

by Phantom Ace ( 13 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Polls at September 30th, 2011 - 4:00 pm

This is a huge blow to La Raza, the Progressives and the Nativists who lament the death of White America. The Census in 2010 clarified that Hispanic is not a race, but an ethnicity. The result is that the majority of Latinos call themselves White.  When White Hispanics are added to Non Hispanic Whites, the White share of the population stands at 72%.

More Hispanics are listing their race as white, according to the U.S. Census.

The shift is due to recent census changes that emphasize “Hispanic” as an ethnicity, not a race. While the U.S. government first made this distinction in 1980, many Latinos continued to use the “some other race” box to establish a Hispanic identity. 

In a switch, the 2010 census forms specifically instructed Latinos that Hispanic origins are not races and to select a recognized category such as white or black.

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“The white population has become more diverse as evidenced by the growth of the Hispanic white population and the multiple-race white population,” including black-white and white-Asian people, according to the 2010 census analysis released Thursday.

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The definition of white has always been expansive,” he said. “I could see the census in 2030 or 2040 dropping the differentiation between Hispanics and whites.”

Roderick Harrison, a Howard University sociologist and former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, agreed that growing numbers of second- and third-generation Hispanics may lose some of their cultural identity as they become more assimilated in the U.S. 

“Some portion might indeed become, for most social purposes, ‘white,'” he said.

The truth is that Most Hispanics are White. Even if some of us have some Indian or Black in us, in the Latin Nations, White is determined by your appearance or social class. Progressives have tried to deny the European roots of Hispanics by emphasizing an Native American identity. This is a carry over from the one drop rule. La Raza needs Hispanics to be non white so they can create a victim group. Nativists still think the Duke of Parma and the Spanish Tercios are at Calais waiting for the Armada. Hence they refuse to accept Hispanics as being of the same European roots as them.

As a Hispanic, I do view myself as White. So the talk of the death of White America is exaggerated. It just must means White America will have a bit more Sabor (flavor)!

This is all irrelevant anyway, we are all Americans regardless of race. Culture should define us, not some mythical construct as Race.
(Hat Tip: MikeA)

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Obama’s support among Hispanics down to 44%

by Phantom Ace ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Headlines, Republican Party at August 24th, 2011 - 9:00 am

Instead of addressing the real concerns of the Hispanic community in America, which is jobs Obama tried to pander. He thought by using rhetoric about illegals and paint Republicans as racist, that would be enough to woo the Latin vote. Instead, all it has done is turn them off to Obama. They are like any American and are worried about jobs. They don’t give a rats ass about some illegal border jumper, they are worried about a better tomorrow.  As a result, Obama now is paying the political price and his approval among Hispanics is 44%.

President Barack Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics has plunged to an all-time low of 44 percent — down an astonishing 45 points from its peak, a new Gallup poll reveals.
Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics stood at 74 percent when he took office and rose to 85 percent by April 2009. It last stood at 85 percent on May 17, 2009, but has been dropping ever since.

By April of this year, the rating had reached 47 percent, and after a slight uptick it dropped to 44 percent in the most recent Gallup poll, down 5 points from the previous poll concluded on August 14.

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“But there are a lot of Latinos, a lot of Hispanics in America, that came here the legal way, love our country, and they followed the rule of law,” she said. “We are in big trouble and the president is feeding into it. I believe this is going to backfire on the Obama administration.”

Brewer, who has vowed to fight the new policy, added: “We were all hoping he would come up with a job plan. But with this latest document on amnesty, he has really come forth with a job plan but I didn’t know that it was going to be for the illegals.”

If the GOP was smart, They would take advantage of this situation.  The Republicans should focus on helping small Hispanic businesses and helping Latins integrate in America by making sure their kids are taught English in Schools and not put in ESL classes. They should also create a counter to the Kapo group La Raza. Hispanic is not a race, but a cultural grouping that is composed of different races or combinations.

Another tactic the GOP should do is change the tone of the illegal immigration debate. Instead of letting Nativist yahoos go out there and turn this into some racial or cultural invasion. Or promote fantasies about Mexico being some superpower with a mighty military about to invade, when they can’t even control their own nation or fight Cartels, they should use Machiavellian tactics. Get Hispanic Conservatives to go out there and play off Legal Hispanics against the illegals. Make it an issue of law and fairness. Go after Obama for caring about illegals and not the concerns of American citizens of all backgrounds.

The Republicans have a choice. They can pander to Nativists who are currently claiming Marco Rubio is not a real American and win maybe at best one more election at the cost of turning Hispanics into permanent Democratic voters. But if the GOP respects Hispanics and their culture, they can bring them into the fold and cripple the Democrats. It’s up to the Republicans.

Fortune favors the bold!

(Hat Tip: Eliana)

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