How Did A Town That's 81% Hispanic Elect A Xenophobic Mayor?

[Shell_Seas]

Don McLaughlin has a long history of spewing hate and racism on Fox News. How did he become the mayor of a town that is 81% Hispanic?

https://livingbluetx.com/2022/05/don-mclaughlin-uvalde-mayor/

[Paladin]

1. The conservative Hispanic vote has hindered TX Democrats for some time, now.

It centers around Catholic anti-abortion doctrine, and it's contributing to Texas being red, even though most of the big cities (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio) are Democratic blue.

[Autumn]

2. Hispanics are often Catholic. They are anti abortion and to a point think that people who are

here illegally should be sent back.

[Walleye]

3. The right to life bullshit started as a method to peel off catholic votes from the Democratic Party

Right after Roe. it was a completely political reason. Nobody in power ever cared about the lives of these poor unborn babies.

[SharonAnn]

7. So now, these people are voting for the "death party". The one that kills children.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Lees1995 has a great response to this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=323877

It’s bringing on a rant. Shortnotes: I went to sell some gold pieces in winter park once and I got severely racially profiled. I came home traumatized. By then I knew that I couldn’t go running to the police. For one thing, Central Florida was moving in the wrong direction and there was no specialized department for these kind of things. I figured I would just get the usual good ole boy response. And that was a concern, because I worried about blowback to my family.

See, the things I was taught growing up in a Latino family were that you worked hard and you kept your head down, oh and you saved like a miser. This accomplished two things: it kept you safe from being targeted, and it was the only path to financial security.

So, when I was racially profiled at the jewelers, by that time, I knew that I already had an uncomfortable exposure. Because people in my community were aware that I wasn’t going to go along with the fraud that was committed here years back, I was afraid to resort to a system that I knew could be derailed with one phone call.

So, yes, this is a calamity situation for the Latino community in Uvalde. Especially when the Latino leaders may already be indoctrinated to be go alongs. This is exactly the kind of personality that De Santis’ Anglo indoctrination camps are set to create.

[kelly1mm]

5. Hispanics in general and in TX and FL in particular are moving towards republicans in ever

increasing numbers. It is possible that republicans could win the Hispanic vote overall in 2022.

For something really shocking look at President Biden's approval numbers with Hispanics.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Because everyone knows that Republicans love their little brown brothers and sisters.

Its like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.

[LuckyLib]

8. Many Latinos are evangelicals. Those churches have

worked hard to bring in the Latino community. Also, the backdrop is the story of racism and oppression all across the Southwest.