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This 5.5 page paper examines patterns in Latino
politics, moving from civil rights based issues to
more broad-based national concerns of cultural,
political and economic natures. In California
alone, Latino/Hispanic voting quadruped in the
last presidential election.
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Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBlatinv.doc.
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Hispanics/Latinos are the fastest growing and the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. They are concentrated in nine states which together control 75% of the electoral votes
a candidate would need to win the presidency. Going by a multiplicity of labels, "Latinos," "Hispanics" or "Hispanic Americans will carry a major political impact and have even greater potential
for influencing United States political issues(Hartness ppg). Three major Latino groups Within our country there are three major ethnic distinctions within the
Latino group: Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, and Puerto Ricans. The immigration-driven growth in the Mexican American and Latino populations in the twentieth century has created a definite challenge
for political organizations in these communities. These organizations, often elite-driven and dominated by the U.S.-born, sought to distinguish their needs from those of the immigrants often fearing that the immigrants
would undermine their demands for civil rights. The pluralist organizations that grew from the 1960s radicalism spoke more to immigrant rights than had their predecessors, but their primary focus remained
civil rights. When these pluralist organizations spoke to immigrant issues in the 1970s and 1980s, they continued to focus on questions of rights, particularly for undocumented immigrants-equal protection for the
undocumented, non-discrimination in the workforce, procedural controls on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and legalization for the undocumented (DeSipio ppg). As we start to see second and third generation
Latinos that focus seems to be changing; differential salience of issues has important implications for the American political process. Previous US attitude
Often lost in the discussion of the initiation of federal civil rights policies in the 1960s is the passage of a major reform
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