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January 28, 2004

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Luis at ColoradoLuis gives a Latino perspective on all the "largest minority" blather that annoys me so much. But it's at The American Street.

It's the mentality that Latinos and Asian-Americans are foreigners in our own country that has to change. We've got our own, non-white, non-Black ways of being American. If the news that "Hispanics" are the "largest minority" group helps make that change happen, it's good news. Otherwise, it doesn't mean anything.

He then went home and considered which states are seen as bellwether states for Latinos the way South Carolina is seen as a bellwether for Black folks.

Courting the Chicano Vote

If South Carolina is, as Prometheus 6 suggests, a proxy for Black America -- at least as far as the Democrats' South Carolina primary is concerned -- then are the Arizona and New Mexico primaries proxies for Aztlan, er, "Hispanic" America?

Well, some people seem to think so:

The increasing Hispanic population is part of the changing political landscape. The Hispanic population in Arizona increased more than 88 percent to 1.3 million from the 1990 census to 2000 and grew to more than 25 percent of the state's population. "Governor Napolitano's victory was very similar to Clinton's in 1996," Dill said. "She took four out of every five Hispanic votes."
But no one yet knows which way Hispanics will fall in the Democratic primary.

"We have no reading at all from the polls, zero, on how Hispanics will vote," Zogby said.

Of course you have no reading. Trying to get a reading on Hispanics is like trying to understand the "nation" of Africa…you have to cram all these heterogenous folks into the same bucket and name it as though it were all one thing that actually exists exactly the way you categorized it.

Posted by P6 at January 28, 2004 11:21 PM
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The journalist Teddy White-- and I paraphrase-- wrote of a conversation he once had with Chou En Lai. White referred to "the mystery of China". Chou cut him short, and asked, "There's no mystery about China. What is it that you want to know?

The "influx" of hispanics into the USA is a fairly recent phenomonon; hence, the ratio of legal vs. illegals.

Conversely, black Americans, though descended from many African peoples, have been here in greater numbers, for a longer period of time, than any other group save the native Americans.

That's one reason that the political perceptions, and dialogue, of the two branches of the same tree are bound to diverge.

And there's no mystery about it.

Posted by Sovereign Eye at January 29, 2004 02:15 AM