You’ve heard it over and over again from political analysts like me: Sen. Bernie Sanders has a problem with minority voters that will likely prevent him from winning the Democratic presidential nomination if he doesn’t fix it. … The good news for Sanders is that Tuesday’s Democratic debate, the first […] Read more »
Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065
Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the country’s foreign-born share to a near record 14%. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half the […] Read more »
Politicians’ trash-talk about immigration means that Latinos become less politically trusting and more ethnocentric
… When politicians decry illegal immigration, they accomplish two things among Latinos, perhaps without intending to. First, they raise the importance of ethnicity relative to other forms of identity. That is, they make Latinos think of themselves as ethnics, rather than as working class, Catholic, Democrats, etc. Second, they smear […] Read more »
Trumped on Latino outreach
… One result of Donald Trump’s so-far successful hijacking of the Republican nominating process has been to bring the ugly rhetoric and the closed-door policies back to the fore. When Trump labeled Mexican immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” his GOP competitors not only failed to take him on, they mostly backed […] Read more »
Democrats claim resounding Latino support over GOP
Donald Trump may say he loves Latino voters, but Latino voters are not loving him back, according to a new poll. Any Democratic presidential candidate would resoundingly carry the Latino vote over the current Republican front-runner if the 2016 election were held today, according to the latest MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll released […] Read more »
Republicans Fear Donald Trump Is Hardening Party’s Tone on Race
Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Donald J. Trump’s inflammatory language is damaging the party, fearing that his remarks are hardening the tone of other candidates on racial issues in ways that could repel the voters they need to take back the White House. Some party leaders worry that the […] Read more »