Liberal tendency to exclude Cubans from Latino/Hispanic discussions.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

It seems the new trend after Florida stayed in the right column, wrecking the "Sun Belt Paradise" the 1%er liberals have been trying to push, is to discount Cuban Americans and exclude them from being labeled Latino/Hispanics. There's been also a push toward excluding South Texas "Tejanos" after they showed their continual loyalty to the GOP. Is the narrative of "Latinos voting like Bronx blacks" starting to crack? 

[darklordoftech]

Cuban Americans stopped being counted as Hispanics/Latinos when Castro took over Cuba. Castro caused their politics to take a rightward turn.

[Strudelcutie4427]

Cuban Americans stopped being counted as Hispanics/Latinos when Castro took over Cuba. Castro caused their politics to take a rightward turn.

So being on the right makes you not Latino? How tolerant and loving

Sounds like you’re trying to call all Cubans Tio Tomás

[ElectionsGuy]

^^^ That's the dumbest thing I've read in quite some time. Lost some brain cells.

[Sumner 1868]

"Hispanic" is a fancy pseudonym for "Mexican" the Nixon administration pulled out of thin air in response to Chicano activism. Other Latins were added so they wouldn't cry fowl, but the term was always aimed toward Mexican-Americans. Drumpf's games with Mexico doesn't offend Cuban notions of "identity" so they still vote reflexively R because of Castro.

In any case the real reason Republican are doing so well in FL is the insane growth of the Villages.

[Fuzzy Bear]

The Cubans have something powerfully in common with Vietnamese and Laotian immigrants; a hatred of Communism, and gratitude for both the anti-Communist stance America has taken, as well as the fact that we took them in. 

The fervent anti-Communist spirit of the Miami Cuban Exiles is what drives them to the GOP.  That move wasn't inevitable, but it was accelerated when the Democratic Party chose to jettison its traditional anti-Communist liberalism in the 1970s in favor of something else that was provided more apologia for Communism, coupled with more denial of the awfulness of totalitarian Communism in the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and Cambodia.