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> "if you're white and wealthy, I've obviously got your back" What disappointments me more than anything is how all the minority American citizens will feel kn
by hellofunk 10y ago
> "if you're white and wealthy, I've obviously got your back"
What disappointments me more than anything is how all the minority American citizens will feel knowing that the majority of the people they know preferred a man who has for many months publicly and explicitly insulted their own race and ethnicity. How do you reconcile that? I have no idea.
- Lich 10y ago"I think alot of people feel like that, uh, America told them exactly - African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, you name it...Asians...I think alot of people tonight are feeling like, you know, [the] United States told me exactly what they think of me." - James Carville, after Trump's win.
- hellofunk 10y agoI've never disagreed with Carville. He did something similar in 1992 and knows what he's talking about.
- chillacy 10y agoI'd think that latino voters in particular would be offended most by trump, but according to exit polls, a whopping 31% of latino voters went to trump in Florida: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/politics/first-exit-polls-2016/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/politics/first-exit-polls-2016...
- hellofunk 10y agoMost latinos in Florida are not of Mexican descent, and Trump's comments were most hurtful for Mexicans, so that might partly explain it.
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoFlorida's Latino population is unusual (relative to the rest of the country) because of all the people who settled there after fleeing Cuba. It's typical for them to vote and identify heavily Republican based on issues around US-Cuba relations (Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both of Cuban ancestry, for example).
- avisser 10y agoThere's also the 100k+ who've left Puerto Rico in the last decade. I believe most of them made it to Florida. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/americas/puerto-rico-exodus/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/americas/puerto-rico-exodus/