I had a long discussion years ago at a cocktail party with a Hispanic man in Laredo about this sort of thing. He was a professional, very well spoken and thoughtful. He blamed racism and some cultural expectations of government support for the reason Hispanics in Laredo were overwhelmingly Democrat. Not Liberal. Democrat. He said they were Catholic (abortion is murder), family oriented, had a high-work ethic, loved our country and the military along with law and order. In other words, traditional Conservative values.
It is my view that he could be reached but not by the tone-deaf, idealistic, stubborn white leadership on the right.
I have read and argued with quite a few hard-core Liberals over the years and my take on their core demographic is this: Feminist, secular/atheist and "educated" as they like to say. That is not the demographic that is illegally entering our country from the south (calling it as I see it) yet these hard-core Liberals enable the immigration while simultaneously hating white people with the same demographic (Christian, male-centric, uneducated). I contend if the immigrants from Mexico were white that these Leftists would build the wall themselves.
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