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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky
I mean chicken and egg. Black people and Hispanics generally have much more in common with Republicans culturally, but along with issues of poverty the main reason they still trend blue is because they know that Republican ideals are centered around catering specifically to white people and often happily to the detriment of non-whites. To say that Republicans have an issue with Hispanic immigrants because they trend blue is ignoring much of the reason they trend blue in the first place.
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oh, I'm not ignoring that. They trend blue because the republican party has spent a long time investing in presenting themselves as the party of the white status quo. If they were able to lose that image and it came down to basic issues of value and economic policy, the Democrats would lose a good chunk of the minority vote.
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And come the **** on, white Republicans are not nearly as bothered by Hispanics voting Democrat as they are by the existential threat of changing racial demographics.
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In part they are worried that the changing demographics will render their party obsolete
Right wing talking head Ann Coulter wrote an entire book on this concern.
Obliviously the bulk of right wing voters are more worried about cultural and racial demographics in general. But the republican party and other right wing political elements tap into this populist sentiment at least in part due to self preservation.
The fact that the supposedly white nationalist and pro Trump organization known as the proud boys have a (largely Hispanic) Miami chapter, the leader of whom has become the chairman of the entire proud boys organization, is a testament to this fact.