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From Florida Playbook: This was such a fascinating nugget from Giancarlo Sopo, communications consultant and friend of Florida Playbook, so we asked him to type it up for your reading pleasure:
"An analysis of voting results in Miami-Dade County's 35 most-Cuban precincts shows that Cuban Americans were critical to keeping Florida red this year. As recent polling showed, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis and his running mate, Jeannette Nuñez, won 66 percent of the vote in the predominantly Cuban precincts located in the suburbs of western Miami-Dade and Hialeah. DeSantis' 33-percentage point advantage among Cubans over Democrat Andrew Gillum was a 16-point improvement for Republicans from Donald Trump's 57 to 40 percent lead over Hillary Clinton and a key to his success. Had DeSantis merely mirrored Trump's 2016 Cuban performance, the Democrats' lead in Miami-Dade County would have widened by approximately 78,000 votes and left DeSantis with a 0.4 percent statewide deficit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-stung-house-loss-trump-lashes-out-n933901?cid=eml_pol_20181108
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)A cuban friend of mine says that there is a hostility between African Americans and the Cuban community. He says it doesn't make much sense, but it's there. Pair that with a guy named DeSantis and a running mate named Nunez and it makes for a toxic mix.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)or Newsweek reporting the Cuban people were beginning to rebel against troops being sent there, for two reasons: First, Cubans themselves are racist and couldn't understand why their sons were dying for blacks, but also, and secondly, the black population of Cuba was rising and they weren't happy about Fidel sending troops to Angola
mitch96
(13,926 posts)I've worked in Miami for a long while and worked with many old time Cubans. What they told me was that when the Cubans came in droves during the '60's and needing work they took a lot of the jobs that the African Americans had. Old story, work for less $ and work more hours This displaced many AA workers and they got pissed. The Cubans got pissed right back at them. Again the old timers said that "back on the island" Cuban AA's and white Cubans did not have much of a problem.. It's when they came here to the states that things got weird..
YMMV, just my experience...
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I guess it is the typical "I've got mine, the heck with anyone else" mentality that seems to afflict most GOPers.
marybourg
(12,637 posts)are now voting for the Putin-friendly tRump
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)bdamomma
(63,923 posts)what happened with their votes, aren't they pissed off at repigs after they weren't helped during Hurricane Maria?
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)PatSeg
(47,613 posts)have always been very conservative. I think it could be a backlash to Castro's communist regime, but as a group, they are not like other Hispanics. Cuban-Americans have given us many very conservative politicians - Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Sununu come to mind.
In It to Win It
(8,285 posts)PatSeg
(47,613 posts)It is like a club and it is very exclusive.
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)They conceived their hatred for Dems because of JFK/Bay of Pigs. The exiles were wingnut reactionaries in their home country, the BATISTA class. In all countries there is a spectrum of ideologies and there are wingnuts at one end everywhere.