Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Florida's Latinos vote fluidly

The political landscape is changing in Florida as Latinos break their state’s tradition of voting republican.

Ten years ago 37 percent of Florida’s Latinos were republican and 33 percent were democrats. This year only 26 percent are registered as republicans while 37 are registered as democrats, while independents are increasingly leaning democrat as well.

Few places in America’s voting landscape are as fluid and changing as Florida’s Latino population, according to The New York Times.

This could be because Florida’s Latino population have immigrated from a variety of places: Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, etc., they have different ideas of what politics should and shouldn’t be.

For example, voters from Venezuela will reject anything that reminds them of their home country's authoritarian president and while Venezuelans as well as Colombians and Brazilians escaped leftist politics they still typically become Democrats in the U.S, according to the times


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