… The nation’s urban centers are changing rapidly. Blacks are moving out, into the suburbs or to other regions of the country. Poverty is spreading from the urban core to the inner suburbs. White flight has slowed and in some cases reversed. Nationally, Hispanics have displaced blacks as the dominant […] Read more »
California: Among Latinos, Tony V Thumps Kamala for Senate
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris may be leading the field statewide in 2016 race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer – we won’t actually know until we see some public polling data – but it appears that among Latino voters who say they’re likely to vote, former Los Angeles […] Read more »
Climate Change Is of Growing Personal Concern to U.S. Hispanics
Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. … Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming. … Mr. Padilla’s concern is echoed by other […] Read more »
The States That Will Pick the President: The Southwest
Political change has been gestating longer in the new swing states of the Southwest than in the emerging battlegrounds of the Southeast. At the apex of their presidential strength, Republicans dominated the desert. From 1968 to 1988, the GOP presidential candidates swept Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico all six times. […] Read more »
Latino views on the 2016 GOP field: Who can actually win the Latino vote?
As the field of possible GOP contenders for the White House start to take shape, it is important to assess what Latino voters think about the potential presidential candidates, if they even know who they are, and how they can possibly position themselves to court the Latino vote. … Here […] Read more »
With Hispanics, Republicans Take a Pathway to Peril
In the aftermath of the 2012 election, the Republican Party undertook a self-assessment that found, among other things, that the GOP had a problem with Hispanics. … In their report, Republicans noted: “We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too… […] Read more »