This is what sparked all the stories about how Hispanic-Americans in those areas decided to vote for a party that's seen by some as anti-immigrant and supportive (or at least tolerant) of white supremacism.
The fundamental error is in the liberal racist method (as opposed to the conservative racist method, which is 'hmm...skin tone') of assuming that under Identity Politics, all Hispanics are identical.
That's a bit like deciding that all African-Americans are identical, which is of course a perfectly accurate assumption, and why Kanye West did what he did this election. /s
Many Cubans in this country do not see themselves as 'Hispanic' - they see themselves as white. This is because for a heck of a lot of them, they're ethnic Spaniards who fled Cuba because Castro et al were expropriating their shit. Their class interests do not align with the class interests of many of the Puerto Rican or second/third-generation descendants of Central and Southern American migrants (or, hell, undocumented migrants
at all) to this country, because the class interests of a bunch of comparatively wealthy people don't align with those of a bunch of poor people. They may happily
take advantage of those people by falsely pretending to identify with them - as, for example, the wealthy and WASP-dominated Fox News happily exploits racial sensitivities among, say, Scots-Irish Americans in Appalachia in order to further the class war their oligarch paymasters have a vested interest in continuing.
Worse luck is all the culture-war bullshit is costing the left hard among religious communities. We need to stop fighting that war and start fighting the class war. Once that's won, the oligarchs won't control the entirety of the news media, advertising, any of the other industries whose sole purpose is 'amplify the voices of the already wealthy, powerful, and well-connected, who have a vested interest in keeping their numbers as small and uninclusive as possible', and then we can go back to fighting the culture war a lot more effectively.
