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Latino USA

Hombre: Understanding Latino Men ft. Chuck Rocha

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the premiering episode of "Hombre: Understanding Latino Men," Maria Hinojosa sits down with political consultant Chuck Rocha to unpack why Latino men shifted further right in the 2024 election.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I've had someone on my mind lately. Actually, not one person, but a whole group of people.

0:20.7

It's our men, Latino men.

0:23.9

I've been thinking about them a lot, especially after the election, and especially after hearing

0:30.6

what the media had to say about them.

0:33.1

Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97% Latino went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump.

0:39.0

Why?

0:39.6

Misogyny.

0:40.4

No, it's on the border.

0:42.0

There's misogyny.

0:43.9

But it's not just misogyny from white men.

0:46.7

It's misogyny from Hispanic men.

0:50.1

It might be race issues with Hispanics.

0:54.0

They don't want a black woman. Also Latino men.

0:56.4

Y'all voted with Stephen Miller and David Duke and against your own sisters who chose Kamala Harris

1:01.0

with 60% of their votes. So you own everything that happens to your mixed status families.

1:07.3

And to your wives, sisters, and abuela from here on in.

1:17.5

What's the root here? And how do we understand what's going on with Latino men and their decisions? So today we are starting a new series here on Latino USA. It's called

1:24.3

Ombre, understanding Latino men.

1:36.9

And so we are aiming to have deep, curious conversations about what it's like to be a Latino man in this moment in the United States.

1:45.3

And to start off our series, we have someone who can talk about all of this from a political level, but also from a pretty personal one as well,

1:48.5

and all of it comes with his signature Texas Twang.

1:52.5

Some nice digs up in here. I wish I could afford a place over here in Quaid. It's like so nice up in here. Good to see you. Oh my gosh. That's DC-based political consultant and

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