{"id":69352,"date":"2016-09-14T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=69352"},"modified":"2016-09-14T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:09:38","slug":"understanding-latinos-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/09\/14\/understanding-latinos-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Latinos For Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2016 presidential campaign enters the final stretch, Donald Trump has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/31\/politics\/donald-trump-immigration-speech\/\">doubled down<\/a> on his hard-line stance on immigration. In his August 31<sup>st<\/sup> immigration policy speech, Trump proposed implementing extreme vetting and employing a deportation force, and opposed amnesty for more than 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. Polling by Latino Decisions, a leader in Latino political opinion research, indicates Trump\u2019s current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2016\/09\/02\/if-this-new-poll-is-right-trump-is-absolutely-shredding-the-gop-brand-with-latinos\/?utm_term=.ab56f90329ea\">poll numbers among Latinos<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinodecisions.com\/files\/4014\/7282\/4681\/AV_Wave_2_Natl_Deck_Sept_2016.pdf\">slipped to 19%<\/a>.\u00a0However, given Trump\u2019s proposed policies and charged rhetoric against Latinos, it might seem perplexing that even that many Latinos still support Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on MSNBC\u2019s All in With Chris Hayes, Joy Reid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all-in\/watch\/taco-trucks-on-every-corner-756382787934\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a> Latinos for Trump co-founder Marco Gutierrez whether Trump\u2019s immigration policies would fundamentally drive Latinos away from the Republican party. Gutierrez replied that Trump\u2019s message was \u201ctough\u201d but necessary; asked to clarify, he responded with the comment that immediately spawned a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/02\/492390405\/-memeoftheweek-taco-trucks-on-every-corner\">internet meme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My [Mexican] culture is a very dominant culture. And it&#8217;s imposing. And it&#8217;s causing problems. If you don&#8217;t do something about it, you&#8217;re gonna have taco trucks every corner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gutierrez defended his assessment, saying \u201cyou guys defend a Mexico that doesn\u2019t exist anymore. There is a new Mexico that\u2019s rising with crime and we need to stop that. And that stops right here [in America].\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZDemParty\">@AZDemParty<\/a> updated its sign, y&#8217;all. Cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZGOP\">@AZGOP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/azcentral\">@azcentral<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ntIUFZMQq5\">pic.twitter.com\/ntIUFZMQq5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonnewingett\/status\/771775445368918016\">September 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His comments illustrate important concepts related to the psychology of ethnic identity. First, people differ in how strongly they affiliate with their Mexican or Latino identity; some feel more strongly identified and others less so. Second, Latinos in the U.S. navigate two cultural identities:\u00a0their ethnic identity and their American identity. And these identity differences are linked to political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>My co-authors and I <a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/08\/01\/1948550616662124.full\">asked<\/a> 323 U.S.-born Mexican Americans about their political ideology and socioeconomic status, the strength of their identification with Mexican and American cultures, and their attitudes toward acculturating to American culture.\u00a0Those who strongly identified with Mexican culture were more likely to support the integration of both their Mexican and American identities into one unified identity, such as maintaining their own cultural traditions while also adapting to Anglo-American customs. These leaned more liberal.\u00a0In contrast, those who held weak Mexican identification were more likely to support full assimilation to American culture. These were\u00a0more moderate or conservative in their ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Their socioeconomic status also influenced their political ideology. Those with higher socioeconomic status were significantly less liberal, but this was most true for those participants who both belonged to higher social classes <em>and<\/em> had the weakest identification with Mexican culture.<\/p>\n<p>This may explain why some Latinos aren\u2019t put off by Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Latinos who support Trump may feel less strongly identified with their ethnic culture and have a stronger desire to identify with American culture. They probably also believe that other Latinos should assimilate fully into American culture and minimize ties or connections to their heritage culture. These beliefs comport with Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/trump-nationalism-finds-limited-audience-756459587764\">message<\/a> that immigrants need to \u201csuccessfully assimilate\u201d in order to join our country.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Mexican Americans with a strong ethnic identification were more likely to be liberal and support biculturalism over assimilation attitudes, it\u2019s quite unlikely that Trump will be successful in winning over many Latino constituents who don\u2019t already support him. In fact, being photographed eating taco salad and exclaiming \u201cI love Hispanics!\u201d could backfire with\u00a0 conservative Latinos who <em>do<\/em> support him because that type of appeal makes salient a cultural identity that is unimportant to them, or worse, lumps them into a cultural group they have actively sought to minimize.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nHappy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincoDeMayo?src=hash\">#CincoDeMayo<\/a>! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ufoTeQd8yA\">https:\/\/t.co\/ufoTeQd8yA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k01Mc6CuDI\">pic.twitter.com\/k01Mc6CuDI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/728297587418247168\">May 5, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauranaumann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura P. Naumann, PhD<\/a> is a personality psychologist who teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at Nevada State College. Her research interests include the expression and perception of personality as well as individual differences in racial\/ethnic identity development. You can learn more about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauranaumann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2016 presidential campaign enters the final stretch, Donald Trump has doubled down on his hard-line stance on immigration. In his August 31st immigration policy speech, Trump proposed implementing extreme vetting and employing a deportation force, and opposed amnesty for more than 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. Polling by Latino Decisions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":69357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,23656,2125,23699,1824,3920,85,20068,283,1754,23707,20063],"class_list":["post-69352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-immigrants-prejudicediscrimination","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-intersectionality-race-x-class","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-politics-election-2016","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-politics","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/09\/2-1-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69352","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69361,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69352\/revisions\/69361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}