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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

[i]Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background. [/i]

Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time.  Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use.  The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs.  Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP. [/quote]

Thanks for the solution that didn't have a problem.  I'm a Dem and I don't know anyone who uses the term in my age group.  I hear some younger folks say it, but is not that common to hear.  What's the big deal.  [b]I don't know ANY Latinos who use the term Hispanic unless they live in TX[/b].  The use of LatinX had no bearing on Trump.

Give me a break.[/quote]

Wait, has the term "Hispanic" really fallen out of use?[/quote]

"Hispanic" is inaccurate for a huge swath of Latin Americans, even the population itself is divided on their self-identity.

[quote][i]What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino?
The terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” are pan-ethnic terms meant to describe – and summarize – the population of people living in the U.S. of that ethnic background. In practice, the Census Bureau most often uses the term “Hispanic,” while Pew Research Center uses the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” interchangeably when describing this population.

Some have drawn sharp distinctions between these two terms, saying for example that Hispanics are people from Spain or from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America (this excludes Brazil, where Portuguese is the official language), while Latinos are people from Latin America regardless of language (this includes Brazil but excludes Spain and Portugal). Despite this debate, the “Hispanic” and “Latino” labels are not universally embraced by the population that has been labeled, even as they are widely used.[/i][/quote]

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/23/who-is-hispanic/[/quote]

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