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Sep 20 2014
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Texas Gubernatorial Candidates Go The Border To Court Voters
The candidates running for Texas governor, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis, held their first televised debate on Friday in heavily Hispanic South Texas, in the border county of Hidalgo in the Rio Grande Valley.
The county is 90 percent Hispanic. It was the first gubernatorial debate on the border since 1998.
Republicans have won every
NPR (Online News)Nov 06 2016
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Latino voting surge rattles Trump campaign
Hispanic voters could be poised to deliver a historic rebuke to Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Early-vote statistics from battleground states with large Hispanic populations show record turnout among a bloc that has voted at a lower rate than whites or blacks in past elections.
PoliticoAug 12 2021
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Census Data Show America’s White Population Shrank for First Time in U.S. History
The first detailed results of the 2020 census show that the total white population shrank for the first time in the nation’s history as the U.S. diversified and continued to grow more rapidly in the South and Southwest.
The non-Hispanic white population dropped 2.6% between 2010 and 2020, a decline that puts that group’s share of the total U.S. population below 60%.
The nation’s
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 09 2022
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Rubio mocks Psaki blaming Latino voting trends on 'disinformation'
Sen. Marco Rubio mocked former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday for her commentary on Latino voter trends.
Psaki, an MSNBC contributor, took to Twitter shortly before Rubio was projected to be re-elected in the Sunshine State. She cautioned her followers that Florida Latinos are "not the same" as other Hispanic voters before blaming disinformation.
"The Latino
Fox News DigitalJun 04 2016
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Fear of Trump sparking a surge in citizenship, voter applications
The campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is sparking a surge in the number of citizenship applications and voter registrations among Hispanics fearful of his immigration policies. Since January, California alone has seen a boost of 218 percent in Democratic registration and among Hispanics, registration is up 123 percent.
Washington PostJul 14 2021
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Florida Dems to Biden: Don’t blow ‘golden opportunity’ on Cuba
Donald Trump and the GOP dominated Florida’s elections last November in part due to the former president’s hardline Latin America policy and rhetoric.
Now, in Cuba’s historic uprisings, Florida Democrats see what many are calling a “golden opportunity”: a chance for President Joe Biden to help bring democracy to the island and, as a result, attract the Hispanic voters that he
PoliticoMay 29 2012
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Rubio on voter ID laws and Latinos: 'What's the big deal?'
Mariam "Mimi" Bell, a Latina Republican from Colorado, resents the implication that Hispanic voters are somehow negatively affected by the state's new voter identification law. "It's insulting when they say we're going to disenfranchise the Hispanics," Bell said of the law that requires voters to present an ID such as a driver's license, passport, utility bill or birth certificate to vote. The
CNN DigitalOct 12 2022
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Reparations: The US town paying its black residents
Evanston, Illinois, is a quiet place in the middle of an unusual experiment.
In this university town just north of Chicago, a sheen of affluence glints through the windows of solid brick buildings downtown, while rainbow flags and "Black Lives Matter" placards dot what seems like every other suburban lawn.
Its population of 78,000 is diverse - about two-thirds white, nearly a
BBC NewsMar 29 2020
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Hanging by a Thread: Surviving Globalism and Losing Factory Culture in the Embroidery Capital of the World
UNION CITY, New Jersey – Most people who pass through Union City don’t realize it. It is the home of the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan, the last bit of New Jersey you see before the big city erases your memory of it, if you flew into Newark Airport.
The criss-crossing highway bridges caging Route 495 blind New York tourists to Union City’s true face – the mom-and-pop
Breitbart NewsJul 14 2020
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Biden makes sharp pivot toward Latino vote
WASHINGTON — Dogged over his relatively weak support among Latinos in both the primary and general elections, Joe Biden is conducting a massive turnaround campaign, hiring a rash of Hispanic operatives, spending $1 million in Spanish-language outreach and, this week, signing one of the nation’s top pollsters in the field, Latino Decisions.
A raft of recent general election polls shows
Politico