By Angel Saavedra Cisneros
This ebook explores the forces that form Latino political personal tastes, arguing that social identities are on the middle of Latino partisanship. regardless of hopes of the Republican social gathering for bringing in Latinos via spiritual and ethical concerns, Latinos in the US continually facet with the Democratic celebration. attainable causes in response to social identification become theories of Latino partisanship. the 1st risk is that Latinos behave as a single-issue public pushed politically by means of the problem of immigration. a radical exploration of this threat partially of the ebook unearths little or no proof to justify treating Latinos as a single-issue public. the second one rationalization, offered partially 3, is predicated extra seriously at the suggestion of social identities. Latino pan-ethnic id emerges as one among a number of identities on hand to Latinos in the USA. those a number of, diversified, and overlapping identities are the strength in the back of Latino partisanship. Latino ethnic id trumps the impression of spiritual identities in making Latinos extra Democratic.
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5, explores how increases in the importance of immigration affect the way Latinos conceive of their partisanship. The theory developed in this section of the book, coupled with the findings in the second section, lead me to propose a simpler alternative to understanding the development of partisanship among Latino immigrants. The theory of identity-based partisanship requires little cognitive effort, thus fulfilling the least-effort principle of political thinking. The empirical tests for this theory are conducted in section 3.
In the absence of parental socialization into the US political party system, the role of other factors that help establish psychological attachments to the parties becomes more relevant. Existing models of partisanship acquisition are largely unable to predict where initial political preferences would come from without effective socialization early in the life of a homo-politicus, such as with the immigrant case. While cultural, and even political, attitudes may transfer back and forth between home and host countries (Jiménez 2008), especially with the rise in transnationalism among Latino immigrants, thoughts and feelings about American political parties and feelings toward them are much less likely to be influenced from the home country.
Using the data from the 2008 and 2012 American National Election Study (ANES), the standard bearer for studies of voting behavior in American politics, Fig. 2 Interestingly, Latinos and non-Hispanic white Americans share quite a bit in common in their high propensity to identify as independent or have no partisan preference. Roughly one-third of Latinos and Anglos are either independents or do not have a specific partisan preference. Hajnal and Lee find a similar trend for Asians (2011). This might be one of the reasons for why casual observers of the US political landscape sense that immigrants and Latinos (just as much as the majority white population) are up for grabs politically.