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Code Switch

Latinos are moving to the far right. Paola Ramos thinks she knows why

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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As we close in on the election, it's Trump-supporting Latinos that some pollsters believe could decide this race. So how did we get here? In her new book, Defectors, Paola Ramos explains that part of the story of being Latino has always been this temptation to defect.

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This message comes from the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation.

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If you're a U.S. Citizen living abroad, the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project's online form

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will walk you through requesting your ballot in just five minutes.

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Visit International Voter.com.

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You're listening to Code Switch.

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I'm Lori Lissaraga.

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As we head toward another presidential election, we're seeing a shift in the politics of American Latinos.

0:30.0

Believe you're not, to the far right.

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Now, a Latino immigrant being a white supremacist

0:38.0

might sound antithetical, right?

0:41.0

And yet, there are a lot of examples of exactly that. People like Enrici Tarrio, chairman of the proud

0:48.7

boys, and one of the masterminds behind the insurrection on January 6th,

0:55.0

or Maricio Garcia, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi sympathizer

1:00.5

who shot and killed eight people at a mall in Allen, Texas.

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And while these men are extreme violent examples,

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their stories do reflect a real shift.

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I mean, over the last eight years,

1:15.4

I've watched many of my own family go from

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rarely talking about politics

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to wearing MAGA hats and attending Trump rallies. And it's Trump supporting Latinos

1:27.7

that some pollsters believe could decide this election. So how did we get here? Mexican Cuban American journalist and

1:38.0

author, Paolo Ramos, believes the answer has been right in front of us all along.

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