In Miami, Cuban Americans have the power to push the state to the left
Cuban immigrants were drawn to the Republican party in the 80s, but their children and grandchildren are shifting the vote
Francisco Navas in Miami
Sun 4 Nov 2018 03.00 EST
Miami runs on Cuban cafecitos, Cuban sandwiches and Cuban time a favorite excuse for being 45 minutes late. As the largest group of Latinxs in Florida and Miami, Cubans are credited with giving the city its cultural core.
A bit of Cuba can be heard in the Miami accent, tweaking a locals tongue to round vowels and cut syllables. And Cubans are also heard through their politics, or so the cliche states: they will always push Miami, and Florida, to the right.
More than half of Floridas Cubans voted for Donald Trump in 2016. But younger Cubans are splitting from their parents and grandparents on politics, and analysts say the power of Cuban conservatism in Florida is now waning.
Andrew Gillum will be hoping thats true as he races to defeat Republican Ron DeSantis in the midterm elections on 6 November. If Gillum wins, he will become the first Democrat to occupy the governors mansion in nearly two decades.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/04/miami-cubans-midterm-elections-voters
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(67,458 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,638 posts)which has been a prediction more intelligent people have been taking for granted for years.
Studies have shown that in groups of immigrants, superstitions, rigid cultural or political beliefs usually undergo profound change after the original group has reached its third generation.
It's good to know that the evidence is already discernable in what has been a very ugly group of radical right-wing reactionaries from the moment they stomped ashore immediately at the end of the Revolution.
Sorry but the change will be deepening continually until there is a far more civilized, peaceful, less racist group of people, not to mention the fact that there will be young ones starting to relocate far more, and other groups of people moving into the area, others from South America, like, of course, more wealthy Venezuelans, the obvious relocation of many Puerto Rican people, Mexican, and Central American.
In no time at all, Miami is going to look far less like CANFland.