{"id":5356,"date":"2015-04-13T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:18:33","slug":"cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/04\/13\/cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban American Political Shifts Could Spell Trouble for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5357\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/65GDV7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5357\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2015\/04\/3334981852_b986115616_o.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Alex Dixon via Flickr.\" width=\"516\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/04\/3334981852_b986115616_o.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/04\/3334981852_b986115616_o-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alex Dixon via Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With presidential hopefuls gearing up for the 2016 election, shifting views about the relationship between the United States and Cuba could influence electoral outcomes, especially in the swing state of Florida. Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio, both Cuban Americans running on the Republican ticket and hoping to secure the Cuban-American vote, should take note. Sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/gss.fiu.edu\/people\/faculty\/guillermo-grenier\/\">Guillermo Grenier<\/a>, who has run the <a href=\"https:\/\/cri.fiu.edu\/research\/cuba-poll\/\">Florida International University Cuba Poll<\/a> for over 20 years, recently told\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-time-passes-a-cuban-identity-fades-to-an-american-one\/2015\/04\/12\/83d3346a-dfd0-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html\"><em>Washington Post:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost half of Cuban Americans are now U.S.-born, and they are reverting to a full spectrum of political perspectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article\u00a0explains how, in the 1960s and 1970s, the passion to overthrow Fidel Castro drove Cuban-American political ideology. But since then, a newer and younger generation of Cuban Americans has entered the voting booth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn South Florida, immigrants who arrived after 1995 now make up a third of the Cuban community, and most are not Republicans.\u201d Grenier added,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My students think of themselves as Republicans, but they keep asking, \u2018How can Rubio be against making Cubans\u2019 lives easier by being against investing in the island?\u2019 Republicans can\u2019t just play the Cuba card like they did 20 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With presidential hopefuls gearing up for the 2016 election, shifting views about the relationship between the United States and Cuba could influence electoral outcomes, especially in the swing state of Florida. Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio, both Cuban Americans running on the Republican ticket and hoping to secure the Cuban-American vote, should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,14],"tags":[905,736,39115,29594,109],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-race","tag-cuba","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-swing-state","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/04\/3334981852_b986115616_o.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}