Most of the prewar and boomer Latinos were conservative Catholics whom fit well along with the gops social platforms ie pro life and such
and well see when the whole “illegal immigrant rage” in ca that resulted in one of the biggest bastards in politics being elected Pete Wilson and the infamous prop 187 The second and third-gen Latinos were afraid they were going to take what they’d established since the 20s and 30s and actually voted for it
So the main attitude prevailed then and still quite a bit now was "we have ours so fuck them " that divided the conservative older generations with the more liberal younger generations
The same reasons White people did.
‘Bernie got screwed by the DNC’
‘Sometimes you need a bull in the China shop’
‘Only a businessman can fix it’
‘He will stand up for the USA’
It’s amazing how many people have a very simple view of the world. Don’t like how the Chinese are ‘screwing’ America? Hell, backslap then and then meet in a cage match on PPV next month.
Watching the news and getting scared to death of terrorisim certainly doesn’t have any racial or gender lines. There’s people of all sorts who will think you’re surely going to die in a terror attack in Paris even though the odds are more likely for you Tom get killed driving from Chicago to Des Moines.
I know some LGBT people who voted Trump. First of all, it’s an easy vote to make in very blue Illinois. But, they figured that someone who’s from Manhattan and has spent most of his life in entertainment would be pretty progressive on LGBT issues even with the odious Mike Pence on the ticket. They compared him with Bush who was from West Texas and spent most of his time in pro baseball before becoming governor and constantly pandered to the religious right.
A Democrat had been in charge for eight years and the US was ready to have a Republican in charge. In other words, the normal back-and-forth cycle between the two parties.
If you ever watch professional wrestling, there’s always a guy who’s designated as the “heel” – the pantomime villain no one’s supposed to like. Funnily enough, lots of people cheer for the heel.
Trump was a celebrity. Many people identify with and cheer for celebrities.
The US is incredibly polarised. In an us vs them situation, people are only going to back the other side’s candidate if they can identify with them for reasons such as charisma, popularity, or message. People who were inclined to vote Republican didn’t identify with Clinton enough to switch sides.
People identified Trump as the anti-establishment candidate. See reason #2. Some people voted for Trump as a protest vote against the establishment.
None of the above reasons are specific to minorities, but I don’t think the minorities who voted for Trump did so based on a minority platform. They voted for Trump for the same reasons as the majority voters who voted for Trump
There is that, and also what I pointed out in a different thread:
Many from those minorities can be counted in 2 camps:
As falling for the early idea that Trump is such a liar that he must had been lying during the campaign so as to be elected and once in power he would show how liberal he was on some issues*.
Lets watch the Republicans go down with the ship with Trump as captain. (The let us watch the world burn down group that also includes minorities)
Some conservatives did fall for this, like the ones that reportedly expected that taking away their health care or deporting their loved ones was a lie too.
I don’t know. I think when white people imagine society breaking down, they always imagine themselves as one of the lucky survivors. They acknowledge that bad things will happen to a lot of people. But they always imagine it will be other people and not them personally.
I think minorities have fewer illusions like this. They know they’re likely to be the other people that the bad things happen to.
As it turns out, I can talk from experience here, in my youth I attended one elite school in the old country. Suffice to say that seeing what extreme conservatives do with religion and dealing with military thug’s progeny, that there are some that also came to America that would like to also see the world end in flames, but that they do assume that the American overlords will help them avoid the bad things.
I’ve read about wealthier LGBT voting for trump because they want the tax breaks. So gay people, like many others, can value their own pocketbook above other reasons.
The Log Cabin republicans are a well known LGBT republican group; Dan Savage has written about them before (negatively, as you would imagine). Some of the values republicans allegedly stand for can be shared by LGBT, though this sounds absolutely nuts to me. Some think they can “change the party from the inside,” which also sounds preposterous to me.
Why would anyone assume that the color of one’s skin predict the content of ones thoughts and attitudes? That is preposterous on it’s face, and kinda racist (i.e. making an assumption about a person based on their skin color), yah?
People talk all the time about how white men were Trump’s base - we had multiple threads about just that. People talk about how Democrats consistently get 90-97% of the black vote in each election. People talked in 2012 about how the Republican party was doomed by demographics as the nation got “less and less white.” Why wouldn’t people assume that color predicts political views?
My impression is that when minorities vote GOP, and Trump specifically, they are doing because they identify with what the party represents, which is power. They are running from the notion that they are somehow ‘victims.’ I actually get that, even if I still can’t understand how they don’t see the long term damage that their party is going to people like themselves.
Black Trump supporters seem to have taken him at his word about ending the school-to-prison pipeline. He hasn’t, obviously, but he’s occasionally given pardons which suggest he cares, and the Democrats and mainstream Republicans haven’t done much about it either.
There’s a couple of groups. There’s what I call the tea sipping gays who tend to vote Republican because they are high income and make 6 figures in a tax law firm where no one says anything about same sex couples at the company Christmas party. They tend to look down on Pride Parades and take their vacations to upscale resorts.
There’s also the Chik Fil A gays who tend to be mostly apolitical. They live their gay lives but generally avoid politics as long as Grindr is available for their next hot hookup. They’ll eat Chik Fil A, and are often annoyed by the politics in the LGBT movement. They’re sick of the the constant adding new letters to LGBT, tired of the debates over the flag, and go to the Pride Parade to see hot shirtless men, not deal with BLM, BDS, and all of the other politics that have worked into the Pride Parade over the past two years.
People talk all the time about how white men were Trump’s base - we had multiple threads about just that. People talk about how Democrats consistently get 90-97% of the black vote in each election. People talked in 2012 about how the Republican party was doomed by demographics as the nation got “less and less white.” Why wouldn’t people assume that color predicts political views?