SOLID REPORTING – BY SALENA ZITO, ON THE INCREASING CONSERVATISM OF AMERICAN HISPANICS – AT 10:32 P.M. ET:   It is a bright spot in the Republican Party's future.  Hispanics, once considered "in the pocket" of the Democrats, are moving rightward.  From the New York Post:  

Forty-seven years ago, Maria del Carmen Guzman-Weese stood with her mother and sister to take the oath of US citizenship. Then 17, Maria suddenly turned to her mother, and said: “I love this country but I cannot be a citizen because of you. I need to want it because of me.”

Three years later, Maria finally took that oath, because it was her choice, and so she could vote for Ronald Reagan. “That time it came from my heart,” she said.

Many Hispanic immigrants like Maria feel a natural affinity for the Republican party — an allegiance that often bewilders Democrats.

Ever since Barack Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, Democrats have assumed this group was a monolithic voting bloc that would gravitate toward the party’s ideals, mainly because they are “a minority.”

More Hispanics voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016, and this trend is expected to continue.

But in fact, the 32 million Hispanics living in the United States come from a variety of different countries, experiences and cultures. Factors like faith, income and country of origin frame their disparate views, and increasingly more of them are voting conservative.

While Joe Biden won 66 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2020, Donald Trump actually increased his support with the bloc by 4 percent, earning 32 percent overall.

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  The key here is that Hispanics are drawn to the Republican Party by its principles.  If the GOP starts diluting those principles, the attraction will disappear.

January 26, 2021