For decades now, Hispanic voters have been seen as a key voting bloc of the future. The 2020 census shows how quickly the future is arriving.
WASHINGTON — For decades now, Hispanic voters have been seen as a key voting bloc of the future, and the latest Census shows that how quickly the future is arriving. More than half of all the U.S. population gain since 2010 came from Hispanic people.
Nationally, the Latino vote made up about 13 percent of the total ballots cast in 2020 and Democrat Joe Biden won the group by some 33 points.In California, the Latino vote is massive and it gave Biden a huge 52-point advantage. And in New York, the Latino vote was even more solidly Democratic, giving Biden a 54-point edge in 2020.
And, in a broader sense, some of the more basic rules of American voters also seem to apply to Hispanics. Urban and suburban Latino voters are solidly Democratic in the exit polls, but the numbers shift in rural communities. For people familiar with politics, that urban/rural split is familiar. It's something that is also apparent among white voters, though admittedly with a greater divide. In 2020, Democrats won urban whites narrowly and lost rural whites by large margins.
Trump lost ground in 21 of those 234 counties, meaning he got a smaller percentage of the vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. But Trump gained ground in 194 of them and in 24 of those counties he saw big gains of 10 points or more.
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