Hispanics turned to Trump

Texas’s most Hispanic county, Starr County, voted 57.7% for Trump vs. 41.8% for Harris. 97% of the populations self-identifies as Hispanic. The last time it voted Republican was in 1892.

Lawrence, MA, has the highest concentration of Hispanic persons in the state, at 82% of the city’s population.  Trump received 14% of the vote in 2016, 25% in 2020, and 40% in 2024 (go here.)

Nationwide, per exit polls, Trump won 46% of the Latino vote, up from 32% in 2020. It was the highest share for a Republican presidential candidate in at least 50 years, according to the Boston Globe.

There is a strong trend of greater numbers of Hispanic eligible voters contrasted with a flat or even declining number of white voters. But because Hispanic voting propensity (about 50% of eligible voters)  is much lower than that of whites (about 70%), the power of Hispanics at the voting booth is less than it could be. (Go here and here).

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