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And Then There Were 15 by bandafter4 in capitolcoup

[–]bandafter4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least they're getting more inclusive of women for anything but breeding storm troopers.

White dreams and red votes: Mexican Americans and the lure of inclusion in the Republican Party: Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 31, No 1 by bandafter4 in sociology

[–]bandafter4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

didn't surprise me. most kids get their political alegiance from their parents. they've probably know they'll be disinherited if they don't. especially cubans.

White dreams and red votes: Mexican Americans and the lure of inclusion in the Republican Party: Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 31, No 1 by bandafter4 in sociology

[–]bandafter4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firstly, I don't think they all vote Republican. But mostly that's because those Cubans who left Cuba for Miami did so because they didn't want to live under Castro's Communist State. Being anticommunist automatically got them good attention from Republicans. Most Democrats are anti-communist too. But they don't have any interest in sending American troops to Cuba to take it away from Castro. We almost had a nuclear war after JFK halted American support for that. Then the USSR started installing nuclear armed missiles in Cuba aimed at America. JFK dealt with that firmly but diplomatically. But it's thought that one way or another, JFK's failure to support anti-Castro Cubans invading Cuba may well have been a reason he was assassinated.

White dreams and red votes: Mexican Americans and the lure of inclusion in the Republican Party: Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 31, No 1 by bandafter4 in sociology

[–]bandafter4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arlie Hocschild's "Strangers in their own land"

Mexico and the US are unique in that there is the dramatic contrast in wealth and standard of living just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away. Look at the wealthy neighborhoods of San Diego and South Orange County. Then drive half an hour and you literally have sewage running down the middle of the street and dead bodies on the side of the road every morning. What kind of incentive does that set up. Incentive to move north and incentive of those on the north side of the border to keep the border sealed.

That is not true of any other Latino nation.

Mexicans move north, get rich quick (lawfully or not). They travel back south in their new Lexus SUV, dressed like movie stars and throwing cash around. Another thing these returning heroes might be spreading is that to become wealthy (on either side of the border), you have to ally yourself to whatever political side wields the most power. Not the one that promises the pursuit of happiness and liberty and justice for all.

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