What do ‘Latino voters’ want? The GOP seems to know
Is there such a thing as “the Latino voter”?
My father, a Peruvian, was something of a Republican, even when he wasn’t yet a citizen of the United States. For the first 15 years of my parents’ marriage, in Peru, he was mostly concerned with the careening allegiances of his own countrymen: the gaping divide between the elites and the poor; the wild, destabilizing vacillation between right wing and left wing in Latin America; the perpetual pendulum swing between oppression and revolution.
When my parents immigrated to the United States in the 1960s, looking for better opportunities for their children, they arrived as a sea change was afoot.… Seguir leyendo »