Conventional wisdom suggests Latinos, and men in particular, have strong preferences for traditional gender roles. Similarly, one might expect recent immigrants to hold significantly more conservative views about women’s social roles relative to their American-born counterparts. In a recent Politics and Gender article, Celeste Montoya, Christina Bejarano and I examine these suppositions. We find neither [...]
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Latino Issues, Voters & GOP Presidential Candidate Positions
Few Latinos will cast ballots in tomorrow’s GOP primaries, which is the case in most states aside from Florida. All the same, Latinos have factored into the party nominating process as a subject of debate and policy positioning. Republican candidates have devoted quite a bit of time to issues disproportionately affecting Latinos, asserting their party [...]
The Sotomayor Nomination: Evidence of Panethnic Political Interest
Do Latinos share common political interests, or, does in-group variation produce oppositional intra-group politics that negate panethnic politics? President Barack Obama’s historic nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court provides a prime and rare opportunity to examine the political manifestations of Latino heterogeneity in a national setting. Sotomayor’s Puerto Rican heritage [...]
One Year After SB1070: Why Immigration Will Not Go Away
By Sylvia Manzano One year after Arizona SB1070 was signed into law, immigration policy remains foremost on the minds of Latino voters. Results from the April 2011 impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll show Latino voters rank immigration the most important issue Congress and President Obama should address. Immigration has been rated a top issue by Latinos in [...]
Latinos Make their Mark: Demographics, Destiny and Reapportionment
Four weeks ago the US Census Bureau gave the nation a first glimpse at the 2010 data. Over 308 million people live in the United States now; a 10% increase since 2000. While an additional 27.3 million new residents is indeed news, the big story is reapportionment. Latinos are driving the very growth and regional [...]
Latino Influence is Holding Parties Accountable
Whether Latino voter turnout is high or low, their influence will register in the 2010 midterms because this time, attention is squarely focused on whether they vote, rather than for whom they vote. It is all but a foregone conclusion that the vast majority of Latino voters will support Democrats. After years of escalating and [...]
Brand New Arizona? To Latinos, it’s the same old thing
In the days and weeks following Governor Jan Brewer’s national press conference where she signed SB1070 into law, because “it is best for Arizona”, organizations, municipalities and private citizens around the country responded in kind. Officials in Austin, Texas, St. Paul, Minnesota and Los Angeles, California (among others) announced official boycotts in opposition to the [...]
What is really best for Arizona?
After Arizona legislators passed SB 1070, Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed the bill into law with dramatic flair. She called a press conference, described the law that “firmly represents what is best for Arizona” and offered her “unwavering signature on this bill” before a nationally televised audience. The law requires local authorities to investigate the [...]
Are Latinos Loyal Partisans?
A recent post here discussed the widely held opinion that Latinos are not as welcome as whites in the Democratic or Republican Party. Latinos and Non-Latinos hold consistent perceptions, suggesting that both parties have a branding problem, insomuch as either party is interested in projecting an image of inclusiveness to the increasingly diverse American electorate. [...]
Latinos are less welcomed by both Democratic and Republican Parties
Analysis of polling data from Latino Decisions and the Washington Poll indicates there is a public consensus that Latinos are not as welcome as whites in either the Republican or Democratic party. Respondents were asked to rate (on a scale of zero to 10) how welcoming they think each party is toward different ethnic and [...]
