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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cubans in Miami came here fleeing from a communist regime in Cuba. They had their property confiscated and have seen the country decline for decades. Anything that even smells or socialist is a no-no. Democrats screwed over the attempt to overthrow Castro at the Bay of Pigs. Democrats did nothing when Brothers to the Rescue aircraft were shot down in the 1990s. In addition, Cubans are socially conservative and for the most part, one of the higher-income immigrant groups. [/quote]

Democrats ended the whole Elian Gonzalez thing as well which was very unpopular with Miami Cubans.[/quote]

OP again - yes, that too. Elian's father was a puppet of the Castro regime.[/quote]

Even a “puppet of the Castro regime” has the right to raise his own son, particularly when the mother is dead.

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I don't disagree. The flip side is that the mother gave her life to bring her son to freedom.

It seems to me that many liberals/Dems view Cuba in a semi-positive light. Mostly I think because of misinformation. The idea that education is "free", that the health care system is any good, etc. Those of us who grew up there, went to school there, and still have family there know better. [/quote]

Do Cubans really think they're white? Do they realize white people don't and just use them and they don't care or what?[/quote]

Many Cubans are white though. Direct descendants of Europeans [/quote]

But in the US people use the one drop rule.  White southerners don't think of Cubans as white.  No matter how European they are.  They are just as likely to be discriminated against as most other wealthy Latinos.  Which is to say less likely than dark 
skinned Mexicans and Guatemalans, but more likely than people who don't speak Spanish and read as fully Americanized.[/quote]
The “one drop rule” does not apply here. We are talking about people who are direct descendants of SPANIARDS. And guess what? Spain is a European country. Not all europeans are blonde/blue-eyed. Why is that so hard to understand?[/quote]

Ah ah ah ah . Keep telling yourself that amigo. You're definitely not Anglo Saxon and that's more than enough for most white people to see you as an intruder. [/quote]

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