Why would you say it's trending that way? This is the first time NM went completely blue. Every single majority Hispanic district in California, Arizona, NY, and Texas went blue, several flipped from red. Where is the data (outside of Florida) that supports your claim?
I invite you to look through this list of majority hispanic congressional districts and see for yourself. Click on the district and you will see their voting history, and outside of Florida they are all blue and almost all MORE blue than the prior election. There are a couple in that link that show red in Texas, but if you click on the district you will get an updated page that shows they went blue this election.
I know you like to think for yourself, so look at the data and think about what picture it paints, rather than whatever slanted pole some opinion piece article you read is sourcing.
en.wikipedia.org
Because of other articles I've read, based on - I guess - immigration trends and how Latinos view themselves as part of this country.
It's not so much whether this region or that region flips - e.g. the New Mexico flip was ONE DISTRICT - (out of a total of three), and it was close. It's not statisitically significant. In California, exactly one district flipped from red to blue - and one, from blue to red. In Arizona, there were no flips to blue - but two flips to red. In Texas, one district flipped to blue - and one to red.
Overall, the most disappointing thing about the mid-terms was - there weren't a lot of flips at all. Senate seats change a little more often, but House seats, even in tidal wave years, don't change much.
So I don't see any of that data being all that significant. Saying a Democrat kept his seat in the House - I don't even have to know who it is to know he has a better than 95% chance of doing that.
What I am observing - is a larger trend. Latinos are now integrating as much into separate classes and regions in the country that they vote more as the "new" bloc they are in, rather than as a Latino bloc. If you're a suburban Hispanic family living in middle America, stats are showing you're more likely to vote as a suburban middle American. I am not sure why it is this way, but more and more, measuring the Latino vote is becoming like trying to measure the Irish or Italian vote.
In an era when conservative politics is acutely nationalist and consumed by a sense of cultural threat, a number of new polls show Latino voters growing more Republican. But this trend may be less about how Latinos see America's political parties and more about how new generations of Latinos see...
www.cnn.com
"My main goal was to explain the phenomenon that seems very perplexing to the media and Americans in general," says Cadava.
www.nbcnews.com
This gibes with national numbers across the board that Hispanics trending towards GOP.
Now - I do have some of my own opinions, but only as it relates to Latinos in my extended family - and among my close friends. Latin MEN are far more likely to support the person demonstrating more - machismo. They're for very traditional families and they're close knit, just as the Italian and Jewish families I grew up around. Almost everything that conservatives support culturally, aligns with what they already believe. They're more religious than the typical American. And they demonstrate the same independent self-made person thing typical of conservatives that I have known.
That is my GUT feeling - smarter people than me are seeing a trend away from a Latin "bloc" and more of an integration into the nation and as such, don't think of themselves as immigrants, per se.
www.dailywire.com
