The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ
laddicus finch
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« on: February 24, 2021, 07:37:01 PM » |
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New Mexico (not really titanium blue, but it did vote comfortably for Democrats in the last 4 elections).
While I don't agree with the Atlas narrative that RGV and Dade prove that Hispanics are now zooming to the Republican column, the GOP will have to make further inroads in minority communities in the 21st century to stay relevant, and so I think they will. The ancestral Dem vote among Hispanos is really what makes NM a Dem state, because it is otherwise a state with lots of Republican characteristics--Albuquerque isn't that big, there's not a strong "knowledge industry" presence, and there aren't many black people. The Hispanic community there is largely Hispano settlers from the Spanish/Mexican empire days, rather than new immigrants, which suggests that they're not quite as averse to conservatism as, say, Hispanic voters in CA or NY. So over time, with stronger Hispanic inroads, I believe NM can become a Republican state
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