Latino Voting Research Paper

Decent Essays
This year's presidential election was quite the soap opera. From Hillary Clinton's past predicaments to Donald Trump's prejudice remarks. Its no wonder the poll numbers were so low.

I consider that in order to obtain a large percent of the Latino vote, both parties need to treat Latino's as humans and not diminish them. The Latino vote is very important, considering that Latino's make up a great portion of our countries population. So in order to secure the Latino vote, certain concerns and issues in the Latino community need to be acknowledged. Anything from education to health care. However, I do believe that Latino's must be educated on both parties before voting. Often times, our people make the terrible mistake of following a party blindly.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Massey, we read of the ways we enforce immigration laws and how they form an institution. There are 50.5 Million Latinos in the U.S. making them the largest minority group here. Blacks make 10.3% of the population and are outnumbered by Latinos by about 6%. Racialization of Latinos goes as far back as 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed into effect and it bought 50,000 Mexican people into the country. Immediately people began to discriminate against them.…

    • 834 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Anglos saw them as second-class citizens that did not deserve the same rights and freedoms they possessed. To discourage minority ethnic groups from voting, Anglo political leaders imposed poll taxes and literacy tests were issued in order to stop them from voting. As a solution to this problem, many Chicanos had parties where food was sold to cover the poll tax. Gerrymandering of districts separated the Latin community so that whites were the predominant race in that district. This benefited Anglos so that Latinos wouldn’t hold any political…

    • 1187 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It is important to not that the Latino population was nearly nonexistent in political decisions done…

    • 908 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    For the Democratic party to really compete with the Republicans they need to target a new group of voters. With its rapidly growing population those of Hispanic ethnicity may be the group the Democrats need to target. When focusing on the Hispanic Population Democrats face two main issues the low turnout of Hispanic voters as well as the number of Hispanics which identify as republicans. During the presidential election of 2012 only thirty-nine percent of eligible Hispanic voters in Texas participated, this is lower than the national percentage of forty-eight (Connie Mclaggan).…

    • 726 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Crime and justice issues are the new civil rights issues of the 21st century.” Latinos care very much about protecting public safety and fighting crime, being tough on crime is not always the same as being smart on…

    • 233 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In 1959, right at the very beginning of the 1960's The founding of the "Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) in California in 1959 and the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations in Texas in 1960 provided good examples of this broad shift in political strategy, as Mexican American activists self-consciously concentrated on mobilizing voters as an ethnic bloc (though almost exclusively within the Democratic party)" (Sin Fronteras 181). This is the first major shift and step in latino politics. The forming of some type of organization for the betterment of not only latino-Americans everywhere, but the other minorities too I believe. Since these groups were forming around the same era as Martin Luther King Jr. So with that said, this was indeed a success for latinos everywhere that they could band together under one cause to push for their rights.…

    • 880 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In 1990, obese adults represented less than 15 percent of the U.S. Population but by 2010, the obesity crisis had hit an unprecedented high. Thirty-six “states had obesity rates of 25 percent or higher, and 12 of those had obesity rates of 30 percent or higher” (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2015, para. 1). Today, obesity has fast become a national health crisis, a crisis of vacated immunity when considering approximately two out of three adults are either overweight or obese. Although African Americans have the highest-age-adjusted rates of obesity for reasons to follow, this paper will focus on obesity and its impact on the Hispanic population. Hispanic Population Statistics Currently, national data suggest 78.6 percent of Hispanic males are either overweight or obese, followed by Hispanic females at 77.2 percent.…

    • 718 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The growth of the Latino/Hispanic population in 2010 is 0.8 percent. Overall and according to the United States Census Bureau (2012), the county was one of the top 101 counties with the lowest percentage of…

    • 125 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    With so many Hispanics making almost more than half of the population in Texas. But that makes no difference if they don’t go out and vote. It may be because they are scared of what they hear might happen with immigration. Even when they have no risk at all. Yes, no risk…

    • 797 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    The recent changes made by the 2020 Census, which would move Latinos into the race category, brings forward the discussion whether Latinos should be considered a race or an ethnicity. Even though society projects a single stereotype of what it means to be a Latinos, the Latino community is actually extremely diverse with no physical characteristics bounding them together instead the shared experience of being a Latino is the United States ties this heterogeneous group together. This understanding of each other on a cultural level and not on a physical appearance level is what makes Latinos an ethnicity and not a race. While the Latino community contains a variety of people with different cultures, customs, races, and nationalities, they are…

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Since 2012 the number of eligible Latino voters has increased by four million, where the increase in Latino voting registration was due to the “Trump anxiety”, where many were afraid of what type of laws would be implemented in Donald Trump won the election due to his negative perspective on immigration. He referred to Mexicans as criminals, rapists and endorsed President Dwight David Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback, which removed undocumented immigrants in a harsh and inhuman manner, as a way to reduce the number of immigrants in the United States with the instigation of a deportation force. This spurred the Latino community to become more involved in the election by not only registering to vote but motivating other to do so and speak up on the behalf of the eleven million immigrants who could not – that resulted with an increase of Latino voters in the 2016 election, 13.1 million to 14.7 million Latinos casted their vote, which was an increase from the 2002 election. It was reported that approximately, seventy –nine of Latino voter where in favor of Hillary Clinton becoming the next president because she was focused on equality or all to reuniting our nation and getting rid of social barriers that divided our nation.…

    • 256 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Latino Voting

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Immigration laws seem like an ongoing unnecessary debate, for which the racists of America disagree upon, and it is why we need those Latino voters. For example, in the 2016 Presidential Election, say Donald Trump wins, we cannot let that happen. When a man as powerful and ignorant as Donald Trump says he will build a wall blocking Mexican borders from United States, he most likely means it, he is a man of his word. Sadly, he is currently in the lead for not only the Republican Party, but the election itself. People…

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gun Violence Analysis

    • 1240 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Liberty, equality, and democracy are considered to be the core values of our American political culture and most Americans agree that they are fundamental ideals, which the government should respect as well as emphasize in their policies. However, our political parties often prioritize these core values differently through various interpretations depending on each of their political ideology. Throughout our American history, there has always been two major parties in our two-party system that competed for representation in the government and are constantly evolving.…

    • 1240 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The climate for hispanic in North America, particularly in the United States and Mexico during the 19th and early 20th century were riddled with racism and the oppression often overlooked, despite their contributions to the United States. There were some variation to the severity of the racism and to the extent that the people worked together. To understand this hostility we must look at the underlying causes, which stemmed from the Mexican War. The end of the Mexican War was called to an end with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which was signed in 1848. Guadalupe-Hidalgo called for the states of Arizona, Colorado,California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.…

    • 1634 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The United States is a country made up of countless ethnicities and nationalities from different parts of the world that have different cultural beliefs, traditions and customs. The rich culture of the U.S. mainly stems from immigrants, individuals who have migrated from another country. With any change there is struggle, especially when it comes to adapting to the culture of a new country. Amongst many immigrants who struggle to adapt to the American culture are those in the Latino Community. According to the U.S Census Bureau (2010), about 52 million Latinos /Hispanics live in the United States, which makes them the largest ethnic minority group living in the United States.…

    • 1593 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays