Cuban Americans’ shifting identity, and political views, divides key bloc

… The idea of the Cuban American monolith, the notion that the 2 million immigrants and their offspring constitute a single-issue ramrod that for a half-century has forced Washington into a hard line against the Castro brothers’ regime, is crumbling in the classic, perhaps inevitable, way: Time is turning immigrants into Americans.

“Over the last 15 years, and especially the last five years, the Cuban American community has undergone a major transformation,” said Fernando Amandi, whose research firm, Bendixen & Amandi International, regularly polls Cuban Americans. “In the most politicized Hispanic group in the country, there is now a cleavage in which the second and third generations, as well as more recent arrivals from Cuba, do not share the hard-line views and staunchly Republican affinity of the historic exile generation.” CONT.

Marc Fisher, Washington Post

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