You can tear those cards apart and throw them away. Racism, we're learning, runs deep, has more roots. In Texas we have a state that was part of Mexico, a state that leans on Hispanic culture for its tourism dollars -- particularly in the San Antonio area where, at the top of the social ladder, are also "tejanos" who are fiercely proud of their Spanish/Canary Islands ancestry. And there are plenty of newer arrivals who vote Republican. How are they handling Donald Trump, their "presumptive nominee?"
Well...
According to Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a government professor at the University of Texas at Austin, don't expect a mass exodus from Republican Latino voters. "The question for me is whether they're going to stay home or vote for Hillary Clinton, because that's a pretty big leap," DeFrancesco Soto says. "What we're going to see is a lot of Republican Latinos – and also just a lot of Republican establishment types – stay home, sit this one out. They can't stomach Trump, but they're not going to go ahead and cast a ballot for Hillary."
DeFrancesco Soto says latinos in Texas cast a Republican ballot much more often than the national average, with the exception of Florida. But here in Texas, we’re a little bit different, she says, we tend to be more conservative. ...TexasPublicRadio
Texas loves being "different." We don't want to fall in line behind this unity crap. We hold the right to secede if we feel like it and we like to remind you of that choice from time to time. "Conservative" is only part of the deal.
There are more options than voting for a democratic contender, DeFrancesco Soto says. In some way, there could be a fundamental shift caused by candidacy, but that depends on what the GOP decides to do this election cycle. "If we see the GOP go down the track that Trump has laid out – which is putting forward a lot of anti-latino rhetoric, anti-immigrant rhetoric and using a really negative tone – then I do think we are going to see latinos who lean Republican probably pull away, lean more independent,” DeFrancesco Soto says. “However, if after 2016 the republican party says ‘Wait a minute, we need to get back on course. We need to court the latino vote’ ... then I think that we'll see latinos give Republicans a second look.” ...TexasPublicRadio
Clinton's hold on votes doesn't seem as strong when we look at the actual numbers. When it comes to actual votes for candidates, entertainment value vies with moral and political judgment. Trump trumps responsible judgment every time. For men like Trump, "hispanic" could be written His Panic. Oh, and "the race card" keeps the media in donuts and coffee.
Yesterday, the New York Times added this op ed piece to the sum of our understanding of racism in America.
Ask people to identify a few landmark Supreme Court decisions on race, and they are likely to point to classics like Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in schools, or Loving v. Virginia, which prohibited restrictions on interracial marriages. But 40 years ago Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided a pivotal case on race and equality whose legacy has profoundly shaped American race relations. And most people have never heard of it.
The case, Washington v. Davis, involved the constitutionality of Test 21, developed by the federal government and used by the District of Columbia police force to assess people looking to become police officers. From 1968 to 1971, 57 percent of black applicants failed Test 21 compared with 13 percent of whites, leading two black would-be officers to file suit. The issue was whether a “race neutral” test that led to vastly different racial outcomes violated the Equal Protection Clause.
Consider three questions from Test 21: ...OsagieNYT
... And, sure enough, the questions reflect "white" experience and culture.
