Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are Cuban Americans,but most American Hispanics are Mexican. The two nationalities have had vastly different immigrant experiencesCuban immigrants account for less than 1% of the US population, but they are uniquely poised by our immigration system to get power and status that, or in just one generation,can produce a candidate – or two – alert to enter the political scene on a national level.
That’s why, though most Hispanics lean Democrat, or though they are the largest minority population in the US,and though Donald Trump’s entire presidential campaign should be a Hispanic recruitment coup for the Democratic party, it’s not actually surprising that the two Hispanic frontrunners in the presidential race, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio,are both Republicans.
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Source: theguardian.com