{"id":50980,"date":"2013-11-13T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50980"},"modified":"2023-09-23T04:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:06:48","slug":"why-are-latinos-left-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50980","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Latinos Left-Wing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 12, 2013, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Why is the [American] latino population so left of center? Because they left countries whose culture is big government. We have not taught them. We haven&#8217;t taught anglos, or the people who have been here the longest &#8212; blacks. We haven&#8217;t taught anybody what American values are, so why would we expect a latino to be in favor of a small government United States?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have not asked the question &#8212; why is America prosperous and Mexico not? And El Salvador not? Guatemala not? Nicaragua not? Colombia not? Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How come big government societies like the Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway are so prosperous? And when Scandinavians move to the United States, how come they prosper while fourth&#8211;generation Mexican-Americans do not? How come <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.maxwell.syr.edu\/amazur\/Jews.pdf\">65<\/a>% of American Jewish adults graduate from college and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asian-nation.org\/14-statistics.shtml\">50<\/a>% of Asians, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2004pubs\/p20-550.pdf\">30<\/a>% of non-Hispanic whites, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/bhmcensus1.html\">18<\/a>% of blacks and only <a href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/globalizing-economy-vs-globalizing.html\">six<\/a> percent of fourth-generation Mexican-Americans? Perhaps big government has little to do with it and human capital has most to do with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 12, 2013, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Why is the [American] latino population so left of center? Because they left countries whose culture is big government. We have not taught them. 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