"Out of Many, One": America Blending

Melting Pot: Carnival at Obama’s Punahou School

 

"We come here for two things. We come because we know this is the promised land, we want to share those fruits. And we want to have a better economy. We want to be able to go from rags to riches which is what this American exceptionality promises.”

— Hispanic Congresswoman Maria Salazar (R-Florida) 

Victor Davis Hanson, a resident of Fresno, California (50% Hispanic), writes that Latinos are now “often solidly middle-class, often married to non-Hispanics, no longer Spanish-speaking, and have never been south of the border.” He adds that they follow trends:

established by 19th and 20th century Italian immigrants. They also arrived poor and Catholic, and in need of state support, but were similarly innately entrepreneurial, family-centered, and traditional. Today, Italian ancestry—whether one is a Cuomo or a Giuliani—is no longer an indication of political affinity.

Kristin Tate, in the Hill, has numbers. She says Hispanic voters split 37%-37% on who to support for congress. It’s because of the economy — rampant inflation, “bare shelves Biden,” and the decreasing workforce. After all, they own businesses at the same rate as whites, and their average incomes nearly reach the median. Also, they don’t like Wokeness: 40% of Hispanics find the phrase “Latinx” offensive, with just 2% using the phrase.

Byron York, in the Washington Examiner, has data showing that congressional Republicans won 36% of the Hispanic vote in 2020, up from 32% in 2016 and better than President Trump's 32% in 2020. Many are independents supporting the GOP, but 32% of Latino Democrats identify as conservatives against just 10% of Democrats overall (46% of Democrats call themselves liberals, but just 25% of Hispanics).  

Many Hispanics have happily left socialism behind. The Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter quoted an older Latina swing voter from a focus group saying that while “there were people who need the stimulus, like those who were unemployed,” Democrats “gave money to everyone, including those who didn’t need it. And now we are all paying for it because everything is going up.”

Here’s what’s really happening in this “people of color” versus “white supremacy” country. America is becoming more multiracial. Mexican Americans are the most prominent Hispanic group. They are 62% of all Latino Americans and 11% of the whole U.S. population, with 71% born here. And what is their background? Mexicans are 62% Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish), 21% predominantly Amerindian, 7% Amerindian, with the other 10% mostly European.

Amerindians, native Americans, the largest part-native group in our country. They belong by birth or welcomed legally through proper immigration channels. Orange County is home of all-American Disneyland. The Orange County population is 40% non-Hispanic white, 34% Hispanic, and 24% Asian + mixed.

As for “white supremacy,” Bernard Goldberg ex-CBS says for progressives the subject is race, and it’s always 1963. It’s always Birmingham, Alabama and Bull Connor, someone in the Old South. Goldberg adds, “You’d think that by now progressives would have, well, progressed. But they’re stuck in the past. On matters of race, the past is their safe space.” In the same vein, conservative Michael Anton writes that for the Woke, the existence of any open, vocal racist is a godsend. They see white racism everywhere, but have trouble finding any.

Every year, we hope for less race-separated “tossed salad,” more melting pot, the direction of aloha — not the Obama of Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, George Floyd, or “Jim Crow 2.0” engineered division, but the Hawaii Obama the country elected president in 2008.