EAN: 9783319339689

LATINO IDENTITY AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES - ANGEL...

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences  arguing that social
identities are at the center of Latino partisanship. Despite hopes of the Republican Party for
bringing in Latinos through religious and moral issues  Latinos in America consistently side
with the Democratic Party. Two possible explanations based on social identity emerge as
theories of Latino partisanship. The first possibility is that Latinos behave as a single-issue
public driven politically by the issue of immigration. A thorough exploration of this
possibility in part two of the book finds very little evidence to justify treating Latinos as a
single-issue public. The second explanation  presented in part three  relies more heavily on
the concept of social identities. Latino pan-ethnic identity emerges as one of multiple
identities available to Latinos in America. These multiple  diverse  and overlapping identities
are the force behind Latino partisanship. Latino ethnic identity trumps the impact of religious
identities in making Latinos more Democratic.

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