non-voters

[Nathan Newman]

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From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
>That might have been true with European immigrants at the turn of the
>centuries who had been exposed working class movements in the Old World/
>My experience with today's immigrants is that they tend to be
>conservative, especially on social issues, like women's or gay rights,
>race issues or even economic issues; many of them are rabidly
>anti-communist.

THen you must be dealing with a select group of Vietnamese and Cuban
immigrants.  In California, the new immigrant voters have shifted politics
significantly to the left.  And gay rights and abortion rights have expanded
along with new pro-labor policies.

Nathan