There’s a rather major re-alignment in American politics going on right now. Democrats have traditionally owned many of the various American minority groups since the early ’60s. But things are changing. One major demographic group, one that is likely the minority group, is changing its political alignment. This re-alignment is one of the reasons Donald Trump won his historic non-consecutive second term, and there are good reasons for their switching to the right.
That group would be American Hispanics.
Nowhere is this upheaval more evident than in emerging House battlegrounds. Among the heavily Hispanic areas that rapidly shifted to the right in their presidential votes this year: A district that Republicans drew to combine two Democratic seats together in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. A district in northern New Jersey that Joe Biden carried by 19 points in…