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AP western political writer. Father, hiker, pizza snob, Mets fan. RTs confirm your darkest suspicions. NRiccardi(at)APdotorg. DM for Signal, WhatsApp

Sep 18, 2020, 5 tweets

Only 1 in 4 Latinos views themselves as a person of color. Why Latino politics isn’t what you think nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opi…

A crude assumption that Latinos will essentially replicate the black political experience and be a voting bloc that can be rallied by ethnic solidarity underlies a lot of assumptions about the demographic. It is a very big error.

(Also a crude understanding of black voters but that’s a thread for another day)

Another great example of this presumption that Latinos will naturally vote Democratic (the GOP has done very well in Puerto Rico, the governor + congresswomen are Rs)

It's all around us, y'all

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