Why 90s were Great for Progressive Electoral Efforts

[alexlocascio at juno.com]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998 17:39:35 -0500 uswatl at ibm.net writes:
>Dear Doug,
>
>There was an interesting story in the Nation a couple of weeks ago about
>southern California politics and the so-called Latino vote.  One of the
people
interviewed was the Republican chairman of Orange Co. a Tom Flores.  The
>picture Flores painted to the Nation interviewer was of a Republican
party
>playing to the Roman Catholic tendencies of the Latino voters and at the
same
>time of seducing Latino leadership by showing them the good life.  This
seems
>to be a generally developing Republican strategy nationally from what I
am
>told. The Republicans have the money to play this game.
>Sincerely,
>Tom L.

Looks like it's working, too.  Just look at Jeb Bush' s recent victory in
Florida.  Of course, Cubans have always been heavy Republican voters, so
one shouldn't really view them as representative of the Latino community
as a whole.   Nonetheless, having grown up in Miami (and having been born
to a Cuban mother), I've noticed that while Cubans spit on other Latino
groups (like Mexican migrant workers in South Dade) the rest of the year,
when election time comes, they're always talking "Latino unity" type
crap.

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