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In the past the Cuban block could be counted on for the GOP, no more
The idea of the Cuban American monolith, the notion that the estimated 2 million immigrants and their offspring constitute a single-issue ramrod that for a half-century has forced Washington into a hard line against the Castro brothers’ regime, is crumbling in the classic, perhaps inevitable, way: Time is turning immigrants into Americans.
“Over the last 15 years, and especially the last five years, the Cuban American community has undergone a major transformation,” said Fernando Amandi, whose research firm, Bendixen & Amandi International, regularly polls Cuban Americans. “In the most politicized Hispanic group in the country, there is now a cleavage in which the second and third generations, as well as more recent arrivals from Cuba, do not share the hard-line views and staunchly Republican affinity of the historic exile generation.”
President Obama handily won the vote of Cuban Americans between ages 18 and 50 in both of his elections, according to Amandi’s surveys.
Cuban Americans shifting identity and political views divides key bloc - The Washington Post
The idea of the Cuban American monolith, the notion that the estimated 2 million immigrants and their offspring constitute a single-issue ramrod that for a half-century has forced Washington into a hard line against the Castro brothers’ regime, is crumbling in the classic, perhaps inevitable, way: Time is turning immigrants into Americans.
“Over the last 15 years, and especially the last five years, the Cuban American community has undergone a major transformation,” said Fernando Amandi, whose research firm, Bendixen & Amandi International, regularly polls Cuban Americans. “In the most politicized Hispanic group in the country, there is now a cleavage in which the second and third generations, as well as more recent arrivals from Cuba, do not share the hard-line views and staunchly Republican affinity of the historic exile generation.”
President Obama handily won the vote of Cuban Americans between ages 18 and 50 in both of his elections, according to Amandi’s surveys.
Cuban Americans shifting identity and political views divides key bloc - The Washington Post