Signs of hope for the right among Hispanic voters in Texas
Because Democrats think primarily in terms of identity politics, they often assume that certain ethnic groups belong to them and vote monolithically. Black people have been voting overwhelmingly Democrat for many decades, and although Hispanic voters aren’t quite as one-party in their voting habits, they have been strongly Democratic, too.
But one interesting thing about the election of 2020 is that in several heavily Hispanic border towns, Trump did better than expected. And that Republican-leaning effect appears to be holding up:
Republicans swept key races for mayor in Texas on Saturday, setting back Democratic hopes that the state’s urban areas will deliver statewide majorities for them in the future. Most shocking: In McAllen, Texas, a border city of 150,000 people of which 85 percent are Hispanic, Republicans elected their first mayor since 1997.
Other cities with strong Hispanic populations also elected Republicans to replace retiring mayors. Fort Worth is the twelfth-largest city in the country and has more than 1 million people. Only a third of them are Anglo. But 37-year-old Republican Mattie Parker easily defeated Democrat Deborah Peoples, becoming the youngest mayor of a major Texas city.
Voters also elected Republican Jim Ross as mayor of Arlington, a suburb of 400,000 people that borders Fort Worth and is only 39 percent Anglo…
But it was the victory of Javier Villalobos [to Veronica Vega Whitacre] in the overwhelmingly Democratic Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico that shook political observers…
Whitacre’s loss was only the latest sign for Democrats that the Rio Grande Valley is slipping away from them. Biden won the region by 15 points last November, a far cry from Hillary Clinton’s 39-point margin in 2016. At the same time, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez won reelection by only 51 percent to 48 percent over Republican Monica De La Cruz-Hernandez in a district Democrats always carry.
“Democrats have a big problem in Texas,” Rio Grande Valley congressman Filemon Vela told the Texas Tribune in January, shortly after he became vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “For the first time in generations, or maybe ever, we lost . . . South Texas counties with significant Hispanic populations,” he said. “And we are going to have to . . . wrap our arms around exactly why that happened. It may be a difficult issue to reconcile.”
Now, exactly why might it have happened, and why would it be “difficult to reconcile”? Maybe because voters in Texas, Hispanic or otherwise, are increasingly realizing the obviously destructive nature of the Democratic Party these days, and all the rhetoric in the world is not quite covering that up the way it used to?
I certainly hope this trend continues, and not just in Texas.
More:
Three major Democratic interest groups have just released a study that the New York Times summarized as follows: “The party is at risk of losing ground with Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters unless it does a better job presenting an economic agenda and countering Republican efforts to spread misinformation and tie all Democratic candidates to the far left.” The report claims that “the opposition latched on to G.O.P. talking points, suggesting our candidates would ‘burn down your house and take away the police.’”
But the report also admits that criticism of the Left’s stance on crime worked.
Can’t imagine where voters might get the idea that such “misinformation” is the truth.
Had a conversation with a couple of Hispanic guys at the lawn mower parts store recently. We did not mention political party specifically, that I recall, but one of them talked about being afraid his kid would get mixed up by the transgender movement. It has been several weeks since that conversation so I have forgotten some of the details. Both were concerned about the direction of the country. I think the debt came up and what was happening to the dollar. It also came up about military training getting lax. Seems one or both had been in the military and they were upset with the general weakness in Army Basic Training compared to years gone by. Now mind you the military stuff they were talking about was pre Biden. It reminded me of some of the things I was hearing about before I got out of the Texas National Guard in 2008. When I went thru Basic in 92, it was already different from the stories I heard in the 80s. But the stories we were hearing later about Basic made it seem the pendulum had swung too far and soft.
The Republican Party does not need Bruce Jenner to win in California. We need bold colors, not pastels ones. One party wants your hispanic daughters to share locker rooms with boys and the other does not.
People in Texas are seeing the effects of open borders quite close up and personal. It’s not good, no matter what the Biden cabal says.
A few days ago I had three Mexicans knock on my door looking for landscaping work. One spoke broken English, the other two hardly any at all. Amiable fellows and probably good workers. However, even if I had needed some landscaping work done, I would not have hired them. They are obviously fairly newly arrived here and illegals. Since ICE has been neutered by Biden, they are willing to come out of the shadows, cruising neighborhoods looking for work. If I needed landscaping work done, I would hire Tat Truong, a legal immigrant from Vietnam. He will cost more, but I want my dollars to go to citizens, not illegals.
if no one would hire the illegals, they would not want to come. But construction companies, meat packers, hotels, fast food places, and other businesses that want to pay rock bottom wages will hire them. It drives wages down and increases unemployment amongst our citizens. The citizens in the Rio Grande Valley know this. We need a secure border and we need it now.
The Mexican that does my mothers yard work (claims to be legal) showed me a drivers license, when I quizzed him. He also has a Trump sticker on truck, I asked him about it. He said “ he is a man “ I asked about Trumps comments about US not getting their best people. “He is right, many bad guys coming now” . I asked about slojoe an d-ho,,,, “Loco” he said with a laugh.
Strange times,
The “one size fits all” Democrat approach for Hispanics doesn’t work very well for Texas. For instance, many Hispanics here are of partial or mostly Tejano origin- meaning their ancestors were in Texas before Anglos were. A neighbor found out he had a Converso (Jewish convert to Christianity) ancestor. When his brother was stationed in Italy with the Navy, he found out that many considered his Spanish surname to be Jewish. (BTW, “Castro” is another Spanish surname associated with Conversos.)
Second, Hispanic identity is not necessarily an “us versus them” fit vis-a-vis the “Anglos.” For example, Tex-Mex food is not merely eaten in restaurants- Texans of all ethnic origins cook it at home. Or consider that Tejano music borrowed accordion and polka from Czech and German immigrants to 19th century Texas. IIRC, 40% of Hispanic marriages are with non-Hispanics.
Third, “us versus them” is quite often the point of view that Hispanic Texans take toward illegal aliens. This definitely figures with regards to jobs. Not all Hispanic Texans have fond views of those countries to our south. A former neighbor told me his grandparents came to the US fleeing the Mexican Revolution. (Noam Chomsky has written a book about the alleged depredations of the US in Latin America- all those killed at behest of the Yanquis etc.- but makes no mention in that book that those killed in the Mexican Revolution, some 2 million, represented 10% of Mexico’s population at the time.)
And has already been pointed out, the “woke” narratives of 57 genders etc. doesn’t go over too well with those not brainwashed in our universities. Such as many Hispanic Texans.
}}} it does a better job presenting an economic agenda and countering Republican efforts to spread misinformation and tie all Democratic candidates to the far left.” The report claims that “the opposition latched on to G.O.P. talking points, suggesting our candidates would ‘burn down your house and take away the police.’”
But the report also admits that criticism of the Left’s stance on crime worked.
1) “Free Shit!!’
2) “Defund the Police”
3) “Glorify Criminals!!”
4) “Abortion, now available for the fifth trimester!!” (yeah, I mean that)
5) “No keeping Gay Trans 6yos from getting married in your Catholic churches!!”
Gee, I can’t imagine what part of that leftist Agenda is “misinformation”…. 😛
Is there anyone BESIDES Joe Mancin (maybe!) who does not support these five points?
Related?
https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1401892852431470598
It’s the continuation of a South Texas trend and it will likely get stronger. But not just there; the recent runoff in Ft Worth didn’t include Democrats for the Representative’s seat, and the mayoral election last week, which is ‘non-partisan’ on its face ended up electing the Republican-affiliated candidate. Turnout was dismal though, but even so, it wasn’t especially close – I think she won 53%. Ft. Worth and Dallas were both Biden country last November.
Reality always has the final say. Reality is starting to catch up to the democrat party because the party’s disconnected from reality leadership is pursuing policies that even low info voters can see are “loco”. Low info voters do not intellectually analyze political party’s policies. They look at results. Skyrocketing crime, higher taxes, inflation, lockdowns and masks in perpetuity… kids denied an education.
And if they pull off another fraudulent election in 2022 it’s going to cement the perception that the democrat party has become the enemy of the American people. Reality is giving the democrat party all the rope they need with which to hang themselves.
Wake me up when an electoral avalanche of Lawn and Pool Boys whose Mommas warned them never to join the Zetas saves the day *and* a lovely West Bank Barrier style Wall rather than Trump’s Toy Wall gets built.
Old Time Hispanics living in border states are one thing. Mexican immigrants from less crazed parts of Mexico maybe another thing and still an OK(ish) thing. Hardly to be desired, but one works with what one’s given. But, does anyone seriously think that Magic Dirt Theory is going to work on the Squatemalans and Friends who seem to be in full on atavism mode? They’ll be building pyramids before long.
Despair is a Sin.
And the food was so boring before all this Diversity came along.
Those Hispanics will *really* show the Democrats next time.. or the Time After… Goddam Racist Democrats hoist by their own petards. We’re saved!
You can outsource the yard work. Maybe. But national salvation has to be fought for in person. Now some have been known to outsource elements of *that*, too.. but the getting someone else to do the job game doesn’t work when you already *are* the USA.
Always a class act.
@Om:
Ethnicity Act. Class is so 20th Century.
How many non Han have you actually interacted with lately beeblebrox? I’m sure you are well acquainted with Texas and Texans. Or just full of it again. All hat no cattle. Or a hat full of cow sh**?
Keep it classy.
Commie Do! beeblebrox Commie Do!
@Gringo
I wonder who these guys voted for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrH_cPby2Ug&t=32s
@370H55V:
“I wonder who these guys voted for:”
And how many times they voted. And in how many different precincts on the same day. And how many times their 859K YouTube subscribers voted.
Whole lotta Hispanic Inside Baseball in that channel. Got me feeling a bit peckish too.
In the last couple of decades, the Left has nearly dominated Latin American politics. The result has painted a picture of failure and corruption. The Hispanics here in the U.S. are not cut off from the south. Most have family outside the U.S. that they communicate with regularly.
The Latinos are not pendejos. The Leftist brand has been tarnished significantly, and they can see the similarities of the Democrats’ policies to those of the failed states to the south.
So, this doesn’t surprise me at all.
FYI: I just watched an interview of Pedro Castillo, the new president-elect of Peru. (No link. The interview was in Spanish).
This guy is ignorant. He cannot speak grammatically correct Spanish. He did not understand the definitions of the vocabulary of economics. He is against monopolies, but doesn’t know what the word means.
Basically, he is another Latin American leftist clown that will be ridiculed by Hispanics in the U.S. and will further damage the Leftist brand and push more Hispanics towards the GOP.
I’m glad to see the slice-of-life depictions of how folks are thinking in Texas. Thanks for those.
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=24032
“ This is why the Republican Party must be destroyed. It serves no other purpose than to prevent whites from accepting demographic reality. That reality is this. *******About one percent of the GOP vote is black. Another 5% is Hispanic and another 2-3% is coming from other nonwhite groups. Generously, ten percent of the GOP vote is from nonwhites and this has been true for generations. No amount of outreach or wishful thinking is changing that mathematical reality.*******
The Democrat Party is the antiwhite party. About 27% of their vote is from whites, while the rest is from nonwhites. That number continues to drop. In 2008 whites were 32% of the Democratic Party base. In 2000 it was 34%. The combination of whites heading for minority status and the Democratic Party becoming viciously antiwhite is collapsing their white support. There is a chicken and egg debate here as to whether they are driving whites out of the party or responding to demographics.
This is ultimately what the Big Lie is intended to conceal. Despite the painting of Trump as a racist, his support with nonwhites improved. If he had been clear about whose interests he served, he not only would have won more white votes, but he would have won more nonwhite votes. Osama bin Laden was right. “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” That is what the Big Lie seeks to conceal from the people who need to hear it the most.”
Worked out well for OBL. He’s with the Sea Horses now and can’t comment. Taken down by BHO, that strong horse.
Next.
Any other genius political pontification to post?
Worked out well for OBL. He’s with the Sea Horses now and can’t comment.
Next.
Any other genius political pontification to post?
“…a racist…”
It’s the one-size-fits-all imprecation of the Democratic Party (in their wisdom and humanity).
Everyone and everything they object to (and want to bring down) is now “racist”.
The Constitution is now “racist”.
Trying to control voter fraud is now “racist”.
Manchin has, in a matter of minutes, become “racist” because he’s trying to save the country from the Democratic Party onslaught.
Etc.
Kind of funny in a way: the Democratic Party, in its grotesque and criminal ambition to gain total power and rule forever has become a pious, prevaricating one-trick pony—a hysterical laughingstock that throws tantrums on demand as it attacks everyone and everything it believes stands in its way.
A preposterous, pathetic embarrassment that has lost all credibility.
Nonetheless, it can still wreak a huge amount of damage and it fully intends to do so…so just maybe…not so funny after all.
If only we could figure out how to get the white suburban women (and the men who long to be like them) to realize what is happening.
I suspect that what is happening in the schools and the “equitable housing” proposals might give them a clue. But I have always thought that people don’t go along with self-evident nonsense and lies…I am no longer so naive.
“…to realize what is happening…”
What is happening is that we are being led by “the best and the brightest”(TM):
https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/kamala-harris-dismisses-criticism-for-not-visiting-us-border/
Since the corrupt media is doing its best to avoid reporting on the excruciating stupidity of “the best and the brightest”(TM)—or the “Biden” administration’s carefully crafted policy of fomenting crisis after crisis and sabotaging the nation— preferring to focus its in-depth reportage and incisive analysis on POTUS’s ice-cream preference and VPOTUS’s wardrobe (especially—and most significantly—shoes), those who get their news from the corrupt media will NOT realize what is happening until they are forced to flee their homes, until rampant inflation eats away at their savings, and until their children come home insisting that they hate their families because they’re all irredeemably racist.
Of course, maybe not even then. Denial is a hard habit to break especially when the truth is being spouted by all those horrible deplorables….
Yep, she’s definitely, certifiably borderline…(and that’s giving her the benefit of the doubt):
https://twitter.com/JimmyPrinceton/status/1402247827804282882
…What eloquence! And what logical ability!…She’s so absolutely amazing it’s, it’s, it’s…scary!!
Roy Nathanson
FYI: I just watched an interview of Pedro Castillo, the new president-elect of Peru. (No link. The interview was in Spanish)…..Basically, he is another Latin American leftist clown that will be ridiculed by Hispanics in the U.S. and will further damage the Leftist brand and push more Hispanics towards the GOP.
I’d hope that after Military Socialist Dictator Velasco- precursor of Hugo?- and Sendero Luminoso et al ( what was the one the “progressive” gringa idiot Laurie Berenson was associated with- MRTA?), Peru was inoculated against idiot lefties. Recall that Hugo Chavez supported Humala, who got elected President of Peru. Humala didn’t govern as Hugo would have liked, but instead basically kept the “right-wing” economic policies of previous administrations in place- because they had been rather successful.
As a result, I’d hold my breath. Alan Garcia had a disastrous record for one term in the 1980s, but 20 years IIRC later he was moderately successful because he maintained the economic policies of his “right-wing” predecessors.
(For all the brouhaha about Hugo Chavez’s reducing poverty in Venezuela, his record was only slightly above for Latin America for 1998-2013- and Peru’s record was vastly superior. Offhand, I’d say it was 40% poverty reduction for Peru and 20% reduction for Chavezuela. As Peru’s poverty reduction was accompanied by vastly superior economic growth, its poverty reduction was, shall we say, more sustainable.)
I have worked with Peruvians in Latin America and in Texas. One Peruvian in Texas had fled PDVSA.
@BoatBuilder:
Time-proven methods of giving White Suburban Women a clue are now highly-illegal when applied by White Males.
These Women won’t even object that much to themselves and their daughters being raped by the Diversity — provided the Diversity is tall and looks like it escaped from the movie poster for Mandingo. Women don’t self-regulate in the face of brutal invaders.. they become ‘War Brides’.
And for as long as it doesn’t come to the previous para, well Female Solipsism does the job. It’s happening to other people. Not to them. So what? Vote Muh Feels!
Blah blah blah NAWALT yadda yadda…
@RoyNathanson:
Are you not missing the big point and just clinging to the old He’s a Leftist therefore Ignorant trope? This because avoids mental minefields of Race and Class and even worse the inevitable and permanent conjunction of both.
Took one look at Castillo’s Wiki entry and a quick check of his visage and the reason his Spanish sucks and the reason he’s butt ignorant is immediately apparent: He’s a goddam jumped up Inca Peasant. Doesn’t look the kind of fellow to have a bookshelf of Perez-Reverte novels at home. A Fellaheen. About as genetically ‘Hispanic’ as you or I am. Now I’ve got nothing against upward mobility when deserved… But it has its drawbacks and disadvantages — and nobody but nobody makes the hop in a single generation without making a hash of it.
Self Made Man from Linz ought to ring a bell about perils of going too far too fast.