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Who you gonna vote for, Republicans? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by yesman to c/politicalmemes

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[–] PP_BOY_ 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know the title is a joke but yes, minority groups (excluding the LGBT+ community) are voting red in larger numbers than ever.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't find information on minorities voting conservative.

Do you have any articles I can look up or keywords to search for?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The number should be near zero for minority groups buuuuut yeah.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/09/29/latinos-and-the-2022-midterm-elections/

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Latinos are typically either VERY conservative or VERY liberal. Cubans especially if they hate Castro.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It also doesn't help that there were efforts by the right to spread misinformation to right leaning Hispanic voters linking democrats to the authoritarian leaders they fled. It was an effective strategy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also with how immigration from other countries is controlled to typically target highly specialized workers who will see themselves as part of the upper class while over here.

The western showdown with caste discrimination is a direct result of this, migrants from south asia tend to imbalance towards higher caste individuals who have a chip on their shoulder from India having passed caste affirmative action and who then go on to pick fights about how its their religious right to engage in it in the west.

The Ramaswamy gang if you will.

These people want to imagine themselves as part of the old boys club that the republicans try to sell themselves as whenever a word can be gotten in over their rabid white christian nationalist voting base.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Oh, do you just mean that any minority vote higher than zero for Trump is surprising?

That survey had a lot of information, is there any historical comparison like the change in voting habits over time that you mentioned?

[–] Arthur_Leywin 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] PP_BOY_ 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Trump hits new poll highs with Black, Hispanic voters. What to make of it?

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Across five high-quality polls that have broken out non-White voters in the past month, Trump is averaging 20 percent of Black voters and 42 percent of Hispanic voters.

Both numbers — and especially that for Black voters — could set modern-day records for a Republican in a presidential election.

No Republican presidential candidate in the past 50 years has approached receiving 20 percent of the Black vote. Since Republicans took 18 percent in 1972 and 16 percent in 1976, according to exit polls, they haven’t taken more than 12 percent of Black