Southern Colorado

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Hispanics in Southern Colorado are mainly hispanos. Basically descendants of Spanish and settlers from Mexico who have been in the US for generations. Unlike recent hispanic immigrants, hispanics who have been in the US for generations swung against Hillary in Colorado because they arent as pro-immigration as people thought plus a lot of them voted for Bernie and Trump's anti-free trade rhetoric appealed to them. Its also why the border counties of Southern Texas despite being very hispanic swung against hillary since even when a lot of the population came much later than the hispanos they still swung against Hillary since their views on immigration is much more right-wing than people assumed them to be. Plus a disproportional amount of hispanic voters in hispanic majority areas in the South west will be made of those who were not recently settled which meant that hispanic americans who consider themselves closer to the American mainstream might had been more pro-GOP then in 2012.


https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5vs8pu/hispaniclatino_population_by_identifying_as/

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I would go out on a limb and say it mostly supports Stapelton in the gov. race next month.

It was roughly halfway between the 2016 and 2012 results. Good news for Dems in the Rust Belt?

I heard some reporting on the ground that said that people in the southern part of the state were pretty tuned out this election. Thankfully both candidates spent a fair bit of time campaigning down there but neither one generated very much interest. The turnout numbers for Pueblo County (population over 150K) strike mas especially pathetic.

Although there's a steel and manufacturing presence in Pueblo I think there's enough demographic difference and economic difference (e.g., some old mining activity, lots of drilling) that makes this too different from the midwest to draw comparisons.

So i looked at economic numbers and unlike other areas in the Front range corridor, Pueblo and Grand Junction has been lagging behind if you index 2009 as the bottom of the GFC to job growth the period after. Which explains the economic reason that a lot of people either switched to Trump or just stayed home.