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While there's no question a majority of Latino Americans still support Democrats and a sizable majority voted for Biden nationally, perhaps surprisingly it appears that there was at least some unexpected shift toward Trump in the 2020 election and toward Republicans in general especially in certain geographic locales.
Personally I don't find this surprising. In fact, I would have expected this to be more significant and happened sooner. I honestly was surprised how much Hispanic support there was for Obama. It doesn't surprise me to see many of the people at these anti-Covid lockdown protests waving Trump flags appear to be Latino or that Hispanics helped Trump carry Florida.
It's a very complicated subject, and in no way do I claim to be an expert but I have grown up around Latinos. I grew up 10 minutes from Tijuana and grew up in mixed working class neighborhoods in Southern California. When I saw the BLM stuff last summer I thought there might be a Latino backlash and it appears at least to a small extent this is true.
Another interesting fact the socialist Mexican President has been one of Trump's biggest friends on the world stage.
This is not to say many or most Latinos in the US support right wing populism, far from it. I have been threatened and called the r-word or worse by Latinos, but on the other hand I was introduced to right wing populist views by someone of this background back in the day. As they say its complicated.
Personally I don't find this surprising. In fact, I would have expected this to be more significant and happened sooner. I honestly was surprised how much Hispanic support there was for Obama. It doesn't surprise me to see many of the people at these anti-Covid lockdown protests waving Trump flags appear to be Latino or that Hispanics helped Trump carry Florida.
It's a very complicated subject, and in no way do I claim to be an expert but I have grown up around Latinos. I grew up 10 minutes from Tijuana and grew up in mixed working class neighborhoods in Southern California. When I saw the BLM stuff last summer I thought there might be a Latino backlash and it appears at least to a small extent this is true.
Another interesting fact the socialist Mexican President has been one of Trump's biggest friends on the world stage.
This is not to say many or most Latinos in the US support right wing populism, far from it. I have been threatened and called the r-word or worse by Latinos, but on the other hand I was introduced to right wing populist views by someone of this background back in the day. As they say its complicated.
