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Junior Chimp
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« on: November 04, 2016, 01:49:41 PM » |
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Junk polls.
That said, New Mexico isn't a state where it's plausible to expect Hispanics to swing towards Clinton because a very large proportion of Hispanics in New Mexico are descendants of families who have lived in New Mexico since the 17th or the 18th Century. Most "Hispanos" no longer speak Spanish and tend to dislike Mexican immigrants and are no different than White people in this regard. Although they're a rock-solid Democratic constituency for reasons relating to machine politics and working class identity, for these very reasons, there's room for improvement here.
It's work keeping in mind that, in 2014, Hispanos in the San Luis Valley swung sharply against Udall for reasons that appear to relate to their love of firearms. There was no such swing in Denver, where Mexican-Americans live. People who conflate Hispanos and Mexicans are very, very ignorant and have no business writing about politics in Colorado or New Mexico imo.
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