{"id":52610,"date":"2012-11-12T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52610"},"modified":"2012-11-12T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:08:04","slug":"a-close-look-at-latino-voting-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/12\/a-close-look-at-latino-voting-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Close Look at Latino Voting Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know everyone is tired of hearing or thinking about the U.S. presidential election, but Latino Decisions<\/a> has released an interactive website<\/a> that shows how Latinos\/as in the U.S. voted, as well as the issues they found particularly important.<\/p>\n

In many of the swing states, Latinos formed an essential part of President Obama’s winning coalition of voters.\u00a0As you may have heard by now, Latinos voted overwhelmingly Democratic, with about 3\/4 voting for President Obama:<\/p>\n

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But this varied by ancestry. Among Cuban Americans, only 44% supported Obama, while he received 96% of votes cast by Dominican Americans, 78% by Mexican Americans, 83% by Puerto Ricans, 76% by Central Americans, and 79% by South Americans (hover over the graph here<\/a> to see the %s):<\/p>\n

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Language also made a difference. Among those who speak primarily English, Obama got 70% of the vote; among those who speak Spanish, it was 83%:<\/p>\n

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Religion was an even bigger factor. While 81% of Catholic Latinos voted for President Obama, he got a much smaller majority — 54% — among those who identified as born-again Christians:<\/p>\n

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The website also lets you get specific data on a number of swing states or states with large or growing Latino populations, as well as breakdowns of the issues that Latino voters said were most important to them.<\/a>\u00a0It’s an interesting website with a lot of breakdowns, so it’s worth clicking over and looking around.<\/p>\nGwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know everyone is tired of hearing or thinking about the U.S. presidential election, but Latino Decisions has released an interactive website that shows how Latinos\/as in the U.S. voted, as well as the issues they found particularly important. In many of the swing states, Latinos formed an essential part of President Obama’s winning coalition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,778,8091,3845,1824,1796,85,8121,285,1754,42],"class_list":["post-52610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-intersectionality","tag-nation-cuba","tag-nation-dominican-republic","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-puerto-rico-territory-of-u-s","tag-politics","tag-election-2012","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52620,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610\/revisions\/52620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}