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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImmigration reform may be only short term benefits for the Democratic Party.
Since almost all immigrants come from conservative cultures and very authorian systems, I don't expect any long term pickup in voters.
JI7
(89,250 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)I don't give a shit!
It's the right thing to do!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You seem to imply that they will vote for the people who are calling them illiterate and trying to ship them back to other countries.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)That is quite a list of crazy fail....
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I get it now, he's just trying out ideas on us. I like dystopian fiction too.
though to be fair that post was in 2012, giving it to 2022-2027 for Canada to be absorbed. Resistance is futile Canucks!
Cha
(297,274 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)I'm pretty damned sure it won't happen.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)Mostly they are coming for economic reasons. In any event for many, many years Mexican and other Latino immigrants have tended strongly toward the Democrats. The Republicans have repeatedly expressed their disdain (and sometimes outright hatred) for these immigrants, and there is no sign that their attitude is ever likely to change, so whatever authoritarian or conservative attitudes some might bring with them is likely to be overcome by the realization that the Republican Party is not and never will be their friend in any sense of the word.
And, by the way, many immigrants are Catholic, and the Catholicism of Latin America, while socially conservative in some respects, tends almost toward Marxism economically. "Liberation theology" is anathema to the GOPers.
I'm not too worried. Your track record is about as accurate as Bill Kristol's.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Anyway, you're wrong.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)All nonwhite groups vote Democratic.
You probably didn't know that either.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)CA leans left because of the pink tide-country voters from LatAM countries, actually.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Huh?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The largest single source of immigrants by far is Mexico, which doesn't really fit either description.
edit: P.S. It's "authoritarian".
Robbins
(5,066 posts)Yet they often vote Democratic.
Hispanics even voted more for Gore and Kerry than W although W made it ccloser.
Immigration,emplyment,education,Health care all Important to them.