This piece from the NCR highlights one of the factors in the upcoming election, the Latino Catholic vote.
This disconnect with immigrant voters and their values accounted in large part for the most remarkable fact about the 2020 election: Donald Trump did better among Latinos than he had done in 2016, and also among Black voters in some states.
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He noted, too, that in any election, a Republican is likely to get at least 25% of the Latino vote, that the demographic has never been as monolithic as one might think listening to talking heads on television breezily pontificate on “the Latino vote.”Fraga also noted that the disconnect between young activists and the voters they seek to reach can be “a very significant problem.” For example, the website at the voter mobilization group Voto Latino repeatedly uses the term “Latinx,” despite the fact that the Pew Research Center found most Latinos are unfamiliar with the term and do not use it.
“The best way to contact a Latino voter is with someone who is a co-ethnic and who refers to the demographic in the same way they do in the local community,” Fraga explained. In some areas, “Hispanic” is more common, and in others “Latino” is typical. Only among academics and students is “Latinx” even used.
Democrats need to figure this all out, and soon. According the projections from the nonpartisan National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund (NALEO), “At least 11.6 million Latinos will cast ballots in 2022, a 71.4 percent increase in the number of Latino voters from 2014.” That increase is expected to be in key battleground states where both parties have recognized the need to invest in voter outreach to the Latino community. “Latino voter turnout in 2022 is projected to increase from 2018 in the key battleground states Arizona (9.6 percent), Colorado (8.9 percent), and Nevada (5.8 percent),” the group said.
The Left has long had a problem talking to people of faith (ie people who actually believe something and take their faith seriously) because the Left’s default position towards such people is hostility. Biden’s campaign site had a long of list of “plans” that were going to solve everything everywhere. One such plan was for Catholics. It reads like someone who forgot to complete the essay assignment due later that same day, and so just grabbed another document out of the policy filing cabinet, erased “Labor, Women and Minorities” and penciled in “Catholics.”
First of all, the second paragraph:
Vice President Joe Biden believes that in America, no matter where you start in life, everyone should be able to live up to their God-given potential. He knows that we need to rebuild the middle class, and this time make sure everybody comes along—regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
While that laundry list might make the ladies of the ELCA swoon, it’s not an especially Catholic-specific conversation, is it. Then, the points that follow are:
Build an economy where everyone comes along and we protect the “least of these”
Respect the dignity of work and give workers back the power to earn what they’re wort
Ensure that affordable, quality health care is a right for all Americans
Pursue a humane immigration policy that keeps families together, strengthens our economy, and secures our border
Serve as stewards of our creation and protect our planet against climate change
(And in case you were wondering, not a hint of abortion.)
Nice try. And good luck fooling those Latino Catholics who take their faith seriously. The kind of young people that David Shor wrote about last fall, the ones who have yanked the steering wheel of the Democrat Party far to the left and are standing on the gas pedal, have no idea how to reach faith voters, and it shows. Predictable results to follow in November.
The Democratic Party is becoming the party of those privileged enough to demand new pronouns and fully expect that the demands will be met. Most people don’t have that amount of privilege, and are getting turned off by the self righteousness of those that do. It may simply be certain groups do not want to be largely pandered to as an “aggrieved minority,” and prefer to see themselves as part of the American mainstream. You know, being treated like normal people.
I can’t think of a Republican who would disagree with any of these points.
That is because it is pablum.
Build an economy where everyone comes along and we protect the “least of these”
Respect the dignity of work and give workers back the power to earn what they’re wort
Ensure that affordable, quality health care is a right for all Americans
Pursue a humane immigration policy that keeps families together, strengthens our economy, and secures our border
Serve as stewards of our creation and protect our planet against climate change
It’s hard to nail down bullet #3, “Ensure that affordable, quality health care is a right for all Americans” The sentence doesn’t really make sense. How do you endure that a thing is a right? And the usual phrase used by Democrats is “a right to access to health care.” As Written, bullet #3 can mean anything or nothing.
I’ve googled like crazy to find a similar set of GOP bullet points about how to appeal to the hispanic vote. Can’t find anything newer than 2012.
Maybe the truth is that the hispanic vote is really the white working class vote? The numbers look similar. Hispanic citizens w/o a college degree vote the same as whites w/o a college degree.
Also, “hispanic” is not a race. It is an artificial division made by our race-obsessed federal government. I have a grandparent who died with the last name “Rewis,” but who was born a “Ruiz.” Am I hispanic?
The National Review’s Katherine Jean Lopez has often made note of the fact that she is almost 100% Irish. Her hispanic last name is a historical accident. Yet she has been solicited many times over the years on her “conservative hispanic” take on some public policy.
It is hard to imagine anything more racist than assuming that because you have a last name that ends in “ez” you are an oppressed minority, doomed to being a 2nd class citizen in the US.
Jesus. If you think that having the last name “Rodriguez” makes you a second class citizen, change it to Rogers. It means the same thing, for God’s sake.
Wish the Church was 1/2 as concerned about Catholics as the reprobates.
Once all those Catholic Guatamexidorians get an plate-full of what the American church is all about, they’ll bail.
MP c’mon man! Beto is hispanic, dontcha know?
Republicans openly choose judges based upon their anticipated future decisions on abortion. That’s how we ended up with seven Catholics.