RE: Trump's Base is Possibly Growing
February 25, 2019 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2019 at 3:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't matter what reasons there might be for identifying with the democratic party. The demographic subset being referred to doesn't identify as a dem, or vote dem.
They are republicans voting republican, not dems crossing the fence.
Indeed and exactly. Additionally, an appeal to identity politics or interests isn't likely to change that..as they don't see themselves as non-white (or non-native..lol), and when they do..as core republican voters, they imagine themselves as being distinct from those other non-white non-native hispanics in miserable situations and reject association with them.
They.......are.........republicans.
They are republicans voting republican, not dems crossing the fence.
(February 25, 2019 at 3:13 pm)Yonadav Wrote: It would be very difficult to talk resolutely anti-communist Cubans into joining the Democratic Party.
Indeed and exactly. Additionally, an appeal to identity politics or interests isn't likely to change that..as they don't see themselves as non-white (or non-native..lol), and when they do..as core republican voters, they imagine themselves as being distinct from those other non-white non-native hispanics in miserable situations and reject association with them.
They.......are.........republicans.
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