I live in Florida, and I would say that most of our Hispanic population is pretty conservative.
One of the problems in the media depiction of Hispanics is that they always use LA as their model, where you have large numbers of people who come into the US and immediately become the property of local social services departments, and hence the dysfunctional, life-long constituency of the Democrat party. LA has a very well-developed left that has got its tentacles heavily sunk into the Hispanic community, in part because of the activities of Cesar Chavez in California years ago and the fact that they were coopted by the radical student left of the time.
This has led to things like “La Raza,” a student radical group that is now treated by the press as the spokesman for Hispanics. But it’s not, and doesn’t even speak for those of Mexican descent.
In some 20 years, I met loads of non-Cuban Conservative Latinos. Great folks, including my wife who is a a committed conservative.
OTOH, I met quite a few Latinos who's own countries were so corrupt that Bill Clinton looked like a boyscout at the height of his scandals. They simply couldn't understand what the problem was.
End game being we can't group Latinos in one camp or the other. Better for our side, I think, as political opinions can evolve especially during an economic crisis such as we have now.
Cheers!
Thanks for all that truth.