Reality check folks….
Texas IS on the verge of seeing its white population become a minority.…
Democrats had been hoping for this for decades….
But?
There is an issue Democrats have not anticipated…
A good many of those Hispanics are turning to the Republican party in their politics….
Especially on immigration…
This weeks 2022 primaries have gains by Hispanic women who are Republicans…
NOT Democrats….
And?
Quietly?
The Biden admin has ignored progressive complaints about the Trump admin immigration polices and kept a good many of them in place…..
The media may not see things this way…
But for some Hispanic’s that have been in the US for decade’s and legally?
There is little sympathy for new comers who try to cross the Southern Border illegally…
All this does NOT change the fact that Democrats STILL get most of the vote in certain area’s Texas…
(Off course?…The state is stil a solid RED State)
But Democrats should be worried about slippage of what they think they have…..
Donald J. Trump’s brand of populism has been widely viewed as an appeal to white voters: Republicans around the country continue to exploit the fear that the left is attacking religious values and wants to replace traditional white American culture with nonwhite multiculturalism. But similar grievances have resonated in the Rio Grande Valley in a profound way, driving the Republican Party’s successes in a Democratic stronghold where Hispanics make up more than 90 percent of the population.
The difference is in the type of culture believed to be under assault. Democrats are destroying a Latino culture built around God, family and patriotism, dozens of Hispanic voters and candidates in South Texas said in interviews. The Trump-era anti-immigrant rhetoric of being tough on the border and building the wall has not repelled these voters from the Republican Party or struck them as anti-Hispanic bigotry. Instead, it has drawn them in….
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The Republican gains run far deeper than Mr. Trump and, in some ways, predate him, interviews with Hispanic voters and candidates showed. Republican candidates are building on a decades-long history of economic, religious and cultural sentiment that has veered toward conservatives. George W. Bush performed even better in his 2004 re-election campaign in the region than Mr. Trump did in 2020. Many of those who voted for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for president and then flipped for Mr. Trump had previously backed Mr. Bush….
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For decades, conventional wisdom held that the more Hispanic voters showed up to the polls, the more precarious the political future would be for Republicans. But the inverse has lately been reshaping South Texas politics: As tens of thousands of new voters have gone to the polls, Republicans have gained more than Democrats. In Hidalgo County, which includes McAllen, Mr. Trump received nearly twice as many votes in 2020 as he did four years earlier….
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The Rio Grande Valley lies at the southeast corner of the U.S.-Mexico border, an amalgam of dozens of small cities and towns across four counties, a mix of recently developed strip malls and centuries-old ranch land. The Stars and Stripes and other flags fly from the back of large pickup trucks and flagpoles installed on front yards. The vast majority of the Valley’s nearly 1.4 million residents speak Spanish and have ties to Mexico. Pockets of deep poverty remain, and residents have long viewed Border Patrol and other law enforcement jobs as a reliable path to the middle class. For all the talk by Republicans of border chaos and of dangerous migrants, crime in McAllen is at a historic low….
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The gulf between the undocumented Central American migrants crossing the border and the Latino residents of the Valley is deep and wide.
Many residents are Mexican Americans who have lived in the region for four or five generations, or proudly proclaim their parents and grandparents came to the United States legally. They know both Border Patrol agents and undocumented Mexican immigrants who have lived and worked in border cities for years. Those who are Republicans say they do not see their views on immigration as hypocritical or anti-Hispanic. Instead, they see themselves as a bulwark for law and order. A few thousand Border Patrol agents live and work in the region, many of them Hispanic, adding to a pro-law enforcement ethos that shows up in churches, schools and local politics….
image…Republican congressional candidate Mayra Flores attends a March to the Border event in McAllen, Texas on Sept. 25. “We want to show Hispanics that this is what the Republican Party looks like. It looks just like them,” Flores said. | Eric Gay/AP Photo