Hispanic Population Case Study

The Hispanic population is growing exponentially and both the Democratic and Republican parties should be targeting their efforts towards the Hispanic population. The US Census predicts that by 2044 the Hispanic population will exceed the Caucasian population in America. Although Joe García argues that the Hispanic vote is available to either party and cannot be undermined , the Hispanic population is not politically active enough to make a difference in the polls due to a lack of resources, civic skills, and motivation. The growth of the Hispanic population should mean that the amount of resources available to Hispanics is growing as well, but the political resources available to their population is not equivalent to the resources available to the Caucasian population. The most essential resource that the Hispanic population lacks is income. The …show more content…
Since 40% of Hispanics are not born in the United States, a significant amount of the population never learned American civic skills from either of these sources. Therefore, the Hispanics not born in the States will struggle with transmitting civic skills to their children, making their children reliant on an unreliable education system that is dependent on the socioeconomic status of the surrounding neighborhoods. Due to Hispanics low average income, this means Hispanic children are more likely to attend lower-quality schools and will receive less civic training. According to a study conducted at the University of California, Davis, 67% of whites reported performing at least one of a possible seven unconventional political acts such as volunteering and donating money, whereas only 35% of Mexican Americans (the largest Hispanic subgroup) had. The lack of civic skills that the Hispanic population possesses means they are not aware of the beliefs of the community and are less educated about reinforcing the ideals of the