For decades, Hispanics have been considered a reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party.

Didn't matter who the candidate was.

The assumption was, if you're a Hispanic, you vote blue.

That didn't happen in 2024.

In fact, perhaps the biggest shock of the American presidential election was the movement

of Hispanic voters from the left to the right.

The shift was dramatic enough to allow Republicans to sweep the White House, the Senate,

and the House of Representatives.

This leads to some intriguing questions.

Is the shift a one-off? Is there a historical

precedent for this shift? Where are the key causes and implications? Let's try to answer the first

question by looking at some numbers. In 2012, 71% of Hispanics voted for Barack Obama.

That dropped to 66% for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

In 2020, it dropped a bit further.

Joe Biden won 65% of the Latino vote.

According to the NBC exit polls,

Kamala Harris got 52% of the Hispanic vote.

Donald Trump secured 46%, the highest, for any Republican presidential candidate in recent memory.

To understand what's happening with Hispanics today, let's look at another pivotal realignment, the shift of white waters

in the south from Democrat to Republican. For over a century, white southerners were, for the

most part, staunch Democrats, but in the late 60s, they started to trend Republican.

The reason? Racism. That was the argument made by the left.

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