It is not just at the border where Latinos are socially conservative.
The following is from the Washington Post, which is not behind a pay wall.
Salinas was frustrated with Democrats because he felt they had moved too far to the left, focusing on social issues such as trans rights and abortion at the expense of jobs and the economy. Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley tend to be more socially conservative and focused on getting ahead to support their families, he said.
“We voted for him because we want prosperity,” said Salinas, a defense attorney who is running in the nonpartisan race for mayor of Mission, a town of roughly 88,000.
But he’s angry about how Trump has cracked down so dramatically on immigration. He jokes that people in the Rio Grande Valley would be the first to help Trump round up and deport criminals. But to deport people who are working hard and have been in the United States for many years? That’s wrong, he said.
Some residents would be more open to accepting the deportation tactics if they were boosting the economy, he said.
“But it’s not. It’s not helping anybody. The price of construction just went up, and I don’t see a bunch of U.S. citizens lining up to take those jobs,” Salinas said.
And while he’s not closed off to voting for Republicans in the future, he feels that a lot of people in South Texas who put their trust in Trump may just “go back to what they had before.”
“You’re counting on a Mexican American to vote Republican again? That’s a crazy-a– bet, bro,” Salinas said. “Because down here, what makes a difference is dollars and cents.”
Benavides, 52, has been living in the U.S. for about 20 years and had never voted for president until he cast his ballot for Trump in 2024.
Before, Benavides had voted only in local races, because he didn’t feel he knew enough about national politics to make a decision on who should run the country. Typically, he voted for Democrats — though not exclusively, he said, pointing out that he remembered voting for Republican Rick Perry as governor of Texas.
Trump had convinced him with his brash style. Seven months into Trump’s second term, Benavides said he was largely pleased. He felt for the families being affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown, but he thought many of Trump’s policies, particularly tariffs, would help cattle ranchers like him.
Folks, it is the pocketbook, while most every article on Hispanics has focused on South Texas, Hispanics in Houston are not that much different in their thinking.
2024 Denver Harbor is likely the most Hispanic voting neighborhood in Houston, with a substantial percentage of residents supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Here is a link to what I wrote after the 2024 election.
Denver Harbor – 2024 Election
Harris lost 7% of the Latino votes in that area, which was allegedly walked by one candidate and the Congresswoman who represents that area.
Bernie Sanders stated that the Democratic Party has lost its way. I have written basically the same over this past year.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of largely ignoring the priorities of the working class and pointed to that as the biggest reason for why they lost control of the White House and Senate.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said in a statement about the results of Tuesday’s election.
I belong to a Democratic Club, and I can tell you that they are not interested in anything that does not come from their minds. They are mini-Elon Musk in their thinking. I was chastised by one of their members for bringing up that the Democrats were also mistreating low-income areas.
As tan people, the Golden Race, like many others, tend to vote for our own. In the same election, a Republican, Garcia, did fairly well against a Democratic Judge in Denver Harbor.
