Could a Hispanic version of Bloc Québécois develop?
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BaldEagle1991
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« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2012, 03:31:17 AM »

Part of the problem was that they targeted mostly rural, poor Hispanics who really just wanted people who could get them basic infrastructure and economic development programs and literally couldn't afford to waste political capital on racist nationalism.


Yeah. But I also think the assimilating melting pot notion of American immigration was perhaps another problem.
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« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2012, 10:33:57 AM »

Also, if hispanics wanted to be a part of Mexico, why did they move to the US?
I think this is the key point here. A "Hispanic BQ" would be as likely to develop in the US as the real BQ would have been to develop if the Francophone population of Quebec included a small number of original settlers, and a huge number of recent migrants from Haiti and North Africa.
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« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2012, 11:16:06 PM »

No for two reasons.

1) No state is remotely Hispanic enough to mimic Quebec & it's French speakers.

2) The American political system punishes 3rd parties.
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« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2012, 05:11:35 PM »

No.

That said, the most likely framework for a third party to develop in the US (as I see it) is in fact a regional party, centered around some charismatic, popular figure who has such a mixture of views that he is not viewed as extreme but is not welcome in either party. This person would run for President with a 'regional bloc' of support, which could then survive as a permanent 'balance of power' group. The question for this group becomes whether or not they can expand into the 'rest of the country' from their region, perhaps usurping one of the major parties (or creating a one-and-two-halves party system, where one of the three parties is always biggest and gets to choose with whom to coalesce, if at all), or not, in which case they will die quickly once they lose the balance of power.
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