What facts and logic are people using to back the claim Latinos are "conservative" enough to meaningfully tilt Los Angeles, overall, to the right of New York or Chicago?
One would expect to see "conservatives" vote for the unabashedly conservative Republican Party. Yet the data show majorities of Latino voters, according to
Pew Research, voted instead for the more liberal Democratic candidates, 69-29, in the 2018 midterm elections. Indeed, Pew shows Latino support for the more liberal party's candidates held true even in swing states and red states: the majority of the Latino electorate voted for the Democratic candidates for Senate and governor in Florida, for Senate and governor in Texas, for Senate and governor in Arizona, for Senate and governor in Nevada.
But that's the national context. Some will point out that, while nominally more liberal than their Republican challengers, the Democrats winning over Latino majorities in states like Florida and Texas are more centrist than liberal, which may well be true. But what about Los Angeles specifically? The California Democratic Party isn't full of the compromised, scaredy-cat, Republican-Lite Dems you see in many other parts of America. Los Angeles Latinos are overwhelmingly voting for liberal Democrats, and this isn't new. It's not some recent experiment. This has been going on for 25 years.
So, given all that, how can we assert that Latinos in Los Angeles are conservative enough to tilt Los Angeles to the right of Chicago or New York?
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