Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 7 2021 08:43am)
Both trends can be attributed to the quality of the governor.
Abbott hasnt been particularly good at much.
one is newish, Cubans going red in droves, the other isn't, conservative legal 1st-2nd gen largely Mexicans voting red.
Not sure the electoral math on Florida changes much anyways, with felons getting the vote back and 2022 and 2024 the dems are gonna hammer that niche for registration. but we'll see.
Trump won Florida and lost, so Florida may not be the game changer it's been historically in tight races anyways. Texas wasn't really purple, and won't be for some time even if California exodus continues, so the "in roads" there are largely moot.
Republicans simply never will win over anything but an ineffectual % of minorities with bootstraps rhetoric and policy. Religious ties only go so far with those electorates. Black Baptist churches preach food stamps.