Univision also asked Obama directly where all the jobs were. Nobody is more surprised than me, but things have gotten tight for “newer” Hispanics very quickly after they were riding high.
As somebody mentioned on a thread here weeks ago (I believe they were quoting somebody): When was the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?
I live in NJ (which is inundated with Hispanics, legal and illegal), and the answer is 0. There is something cultural about a man (and now often the woman as well) providing for their families, earning a wage, etc. that has been wrecked by this economy. Obama will be working for their votes this time; he already proved to them a non-white can win the office, now he has to show he can do the job.
You make an excellent point. The work ethic we see in Central Americans wasn’t polluted by LBJ’s ‘Great Society’, when our own work ethic became delegitimized in favor of government dependency.
Interestingly, the wife of the owner of Univision was recently given a position in the diplomatic corps, representing the US at the UN. Someone is trying to put in some kind of fix here IMO, maybe to make the questioning less pointed???;)