If they could stop blaming Hispanic voters and start looking in the mirror they'd be on the right track. The trend with Hispanic votes is not some sudden surprise, we had counties that were majority Latino go Republican years ago. Hispanic precincts closer to NYC swung to Trump by 26 points. Passaic which is a working class Hispanic town in Jersey was Clinton by 52 points, this year Trump by 5 points, that's a 57 point swing.
It's maybe time for our party to wake up and smell the coffee. Hispanic voters are American. A helpful cultural shorthand would be to think of those folks as working class Americans, because for the most part, that's what they are.
We lost the congressional district next to mine, the heaviest Hispanic district in my state. We had a good one term congresswoman, a second gen Latina. The people in that district are getting killed on jobs. Lots of folks there work the trades. I used to live in the district. Telling people how great things are when they suck is a sure way to lose.
Trump didn't need a majority of voters to win the election, but he got them. A lot of blue precincts with lots of immigrants in CA and NY turned purple.
For something different, about how some blue districts with 70% of people have a college degree, four in ten post grad, $160K household income, and they shifted rightwards by 16 points. South Asians. https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/indian-americans-ditch-democrats?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=239058&post_id=156882379&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=6a4c4&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
When Catalist finally puts out its numbers, I'd expect some surprises.
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