by Philip Bump,The Washington Post The reason the South flipped from blue to red in the wake of the civil rights movement was not simply that huge swaths of pro-segregation voters went from Democrat to […]
by Alex Samuels and Geoffrey Skelley, 538 In his first public appearance after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, then-President Donald Trump sought respite in South Texas. His visit was billed as a way to […]
California Latinos are poised to play a major role in what will certainly be the contentious 2022 midterm elections. By Christian Arana Despite a contentious and tumultuous 2020 presidential election season, the 2022 midterms are […]
By Stephanie Akin and Suzanne Monyak Both parties reassess strategies after 2020 surprises As a Democrat running in a minority-majority suburban House district in Texas that Democrats saw as a pickup opportunity last year, Candace […]
by Will Weissert, AP On a sweaty recent Thursday afternoon, Alex Berrios was instructing his team on how to get people to register to vote. Extend your hand, he said; it makes folks more likely […]
To isolate how drastic the decrease in immigration salience was in 2020 relative to 2016, the figure below shows the percentage of Latino voters who identified immigration reform and deportation as one of their top […]
California’s new senator, who filled Kamala Harris’s seat, is hoping to speak for his fellow Latinos. That won’t be easy. by Christian Paz Alex padilla was radicalized early. The young man was 21, freshly graduated from […]
Democrats must win runoff races in Georgia to control the Senate – giving Biden a mandate. Latino voters will be crucial by Chuck Rocha In less than eight weeks, voters of the now-blue state of […]
Party messaging didn’t resonate in socially conservative border communities fearful of Covid-19 shutdowns and the loss of well-paid oil-industry jobs. by Elizabeth Findell, WSJ For decades, no Democratic presidential candidate had won Starr County with […]
by Fernanda Santos It was hard to keep a straight face Tuesday night as one pundit after another fretted about the surprising levels of support for President Trump among “Latino voters.”Follow the latest on Election […]
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