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« on: July 23, 2022, 01:19:36 PM »

Another factor that isn't related to citizenship is that black communities have historically been proximate to institutions that have encouraged voting since the civil rights movement - specifically black churches, which have taken an active role in black political life by encouraging voter turnout through things like "souls to the polls" and so on. Hispanic communities don't have a comparable institution that has been able to encourage voter turnout across generations due to being a community of relatively recent arrivals to the US (often being the child or grandchild of an immigrant who has never voted).

It’s definitely an immigrant community/non-ADOS POC thing.
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2022, 12:50:49 AM »
« Edited: July 24, 2022, 01:25:07 AM by Kamala’s side hoe »

The general culture around voting and electoral participation among Latinos remains very low in many communities. I would probably attribute it to "not feeling like a part of a team" - many young Latinos I have met just don't feel like they have a strong affiliation for either party, and don't possess the same distaste for the Republican party that many Black voters feel (this is obviously a huge generalization as there are definitely a significant a large number of Latinas in particular who identify very strongly with the Democratic party)

It is a major reason Democrats should be concerned long-term - if they cannot figure out how to reach these voters Republicans might do so first, quite possibly as soon as this fall as Trump managed to start two years ago.

I also wonder if often being repainted by black voices makes many of these Hispanic immunities feel left out or excluded politically hence causing them to be less reliable voters causing the cycle to perpetuate

I definitely think there is a widespread perception among both Latinos and Asians that the Dem brand and the activist-media complex's discourse on racial issues are primarily for the ADOS community- even among those of us who are partisan Dems and very liberal on racial issues. If this alienates enough non-black POC voters down the line, it could seriously jeopardize progressive Dems' attempts to build a multiracial knowledge worker coalition.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of Sanders' comparatively strong performance among younger Latinos and Asians in the 2020 primaries was driven by resentment towards the Dem establishment for overemphasizing black voters in the Dem coalition and implicitly catering to an overly bronz-y (i.e. black-and-white) worldview on US race relations, on top of more bread-and-butter concerns that led young people of all races to support him.

But yes, there's no shortage of college-educated feminists/hard core socio-cultural liberals among every racial group.

On another note:


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