Biden won 750,000 fewer Hispanic voters in 2020 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
Biden’s approval ratings are awful across the board, but his support has eroded more among Hispanic voters than with any other racial group. A poll from December showed his approve/disapprove numbers with Hispanic voters were 33/65, a net -32, while they were 40/56 with whites, a net of -16.
Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist who has studied emerging trends in the Hispanic electorate, wrote in “The Liberal Patriot” that these voters do “not harbor particularly radical views on the nature of American society and its supposed intrinsic racism and white supremacy. They are instead a patriotic, upwardly mobile, working class group with quite practical and down to earth concerns.”
Hispanic Americans are not woke, and many do not consider themselves non-white.
Overwhelmingly, Hispanics made a choice to come to the U.S., and another to stay here once they arrived. Most are not angry people, not resentful, and not bitter about their adopted country. They are (dare I say it?) assimilating. I wouldn’t be surprised if they hear Democrats’ talk about “racism” as pandering to Blacks, at the expense of Hispanics.
As I’ve written before, where I grew up in rural SoCal the family across the street were Mexican-Americans. Their house was as nice as ours, their cars were newer than ours, and they were thoroughly middle-class.
