RT @YamilRVelez: The piece glosses over important sources of variation within the community. As researchers have shown, there are significa…
The piece glosses over important sources of variation within the community. As researchers have shown, there are significant political differences due to immigrant generation and cohort, with post-Mariel migrants being less supportive of the GOP. https:…
@ProfCZM Those Mariel refugees are actually strongly Democratic (its the pre-Mariel immigrats who are conservative). The community is also Dem. now, though the electorate hasn't fully caught up. Polls show Trump got just 52% among them. https://t.co/4…
@MattyMendez The 125,000 number is (approximately) right. The statement about political preferences isn't. That post-Mariel (1980) group is strongly Democratic. Even the entire Cuban electorate is now roughly evenly split. See my paper with @klofstad …