2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMany young Latino voters in Nevada bet on Sanders while their parents back Clinton
Feb 17, 2016
Last year, Nevada college student Ivan Soto was one of about 800,000 Latinos in the United States who turned 18 and became eligible to vote.
He and other millennials those born in the 1980s and 1990s make up nearly half of all eligible Latino voters and are increasingly seen as crucial to unlocking the Latino vote.
A fervent Bernie Sanders supporter who learned about the Vermont senator's campaign on Reddit and through Google searches, Soto reflects a growing generational divide in the Latino community that mirrors divisions in the wider electorate: Although many young Latinos are flocking to the Sanders campaign, many of their parents are backing Hillary Clinton.
"The leadership that is older is all Clinton, but the younger Latinos, they're with Sanders," said Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, whose organization has been working in Nevada ahead of the state's Democratic caucus on Saturday.
Gonzalez said the rift is present in his own family. "My daughters are Sanders people," he said. "My wife is with Hillary."
How that division plays out will go a long way toward determining who wins the caucus. The contest has shaped up as a crucial test of Sanders' appeal to minority voters, whose backing he will need as the Democratic race moves from Iowa and New Hampshire, overwhelmingly white states, into a series of much more diverse arenas.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-latinos-millennials-20160217-story.html
artislife
(9,497 posts)I think older generations are forced to pick one minority label versus the other. I found that back in 2008 when I went to Feminists sites and was excited as a Latina to see a PoC running for the Presidency. The women, mostly older than me, used quotes by Coretta Scott King about being a woman is harder than being Black to convince me to forget about this racial aspect and focus on the fact I was female.
Well, I see things as connected, as one aspect of my life bubbling forward a bit and while at other times, other aspects. I am not a flat personality, I have dimensions. Younger people feel that and embrace it. It has become our label...