A California gender gap: Young Latinas want to fight Trump more than Latinos, study finds
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Set us as preferred Young and working-class Latina voters in California care more about protecting immigrant communities and fighting President Trump’s agenda than their male counterparts, according to a UCLA study.The findings from researchers at the university’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute illustrate how gender can correlate with differences in policy views among California Latinos, who account for about a third of the state’s eligible voters.
Study co-author G.Cristina Mora noted that while the Latino population tends to vote Democratic overall, the community is far from a monolith and there are valuable insights to be gleaned from analyzing the difference in policy views among population subgroups.
This is especially important considering that the Latino population has the largest gap between eligible voters and actual voters among any racial or ethnic group in California, she added.“If I were working for an immigration rights group, or something like that, I’d be thinking, ‘I really need to get the working class Latina voters up to the polls,’” said Mora, a co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.“‘I really need to reach them,’ is what this sort of report would imply to me.”The lesson for both parties in California, Texas and everywhere is that no matter how lines are drawn, no district should be considered ‘safe.’The study, based on a May UC Berkeley IGS poll of 1,912 Latino registered voters in California, found that Latinas under 30 tend to hold more progressive views on topics such as immigration, voting rights and opposing Trump than Latino men in the same age group.
For example, 82% of Latina voters under 30 said that fighting the Trump agenda is “very important to them,” compared to 52% of young Latino men.Meanwhile, 88% of young Latina voters ...