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by sangnoir 3085 days ago
> Daca, illegal immigrants voting, chain migration, refugees voting, PC control of public debate, leftist biased media and reporting, another 4 rounds of liberals leaving college indoctrinated into leftism

I wouldn't say "indoctrinated into leftism" as much as it's outright facing malicious rejection and animus from the right. Latin-American immigrants are a natural fit for the religious right: they are more religious and socially conservative than average, the only problem is that they are brown. The GOP had a narrow window to pivot, but unfortunately, that was around the time the tea-party wing was ascendant, leaving no room for moderates.

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It has always been surprising for me how much overt racism is still there in the GOP (I mean, not surprising after Bannon and Trump's election). Latin-Americans are (generally speaking) conservative, Christian, Pro-life etc. But since they're brown and speak Spanish, they were alienated by the GOP?
They may be all those things, but those things are overridden by something that the Democrats offer.

And they're voting in exactly the same way that every other group does: For their own benefit. In the case of immigrants, they vote in the interests of themselves. I.e. "brown people" as you label them.

I'd like to say I'm surprised at the double standard but I'm not. It's just another case of acceptible reverse racism against whites and western cultures which are conveniently clumped together as "white".