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This is a list of Hispanic and Latino Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Persons included are identified as having a lineage from Spain or Latin America, a definition that includes Brazil, but not Portugal. Entries shaded in gray refer to current members of the U.S. Congress.
Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera (born October 15, 1947) is a Puerto Rican advocate for human rights, a New-Humanist educator, poet, and scholar. Her work addresses a range of critical social issues including activism and social equality, the immigrant experience, bilingualism in the United States, and LGBT matters. Luzma authored six poetry ...
As the latter groups are far more numerous (Mexican-Americans make up 64% of the Latin population in the United States), [13] the Democratic Party typically receives the majority of the Latin vote. Although Latins as a whole, tend to support Democratic candidates, the Democratic Party has lost ground among their voting population since its high ...
Groups can be based on ethnicity (such as Hispanics, Irish, Germans, etc.), race (White people, Black people, Asian Americans, etc.) or religion (Protestant and later Evangelical or Catholic, etc.) or on overlapping categories (e.g. Irish Catholics). In the Southern United States, race was the determining factor.
Mexican Americans became part of the United States society with treaty-based assurances of land and repatriation rights, but these guarantees were quickly disregarded, leading to the dispossession of thousands of acres of land and political exclusion that continues to affect the Hispanic community today. [12]
Party identification has been most studied in the United States where it is considered among the most stable and early-formed identities an individual may have. [3] In other countries, party identification has often been considered a subset of other levels of identity such as class, religion, or language; or to vary rapidly over time.
In a Fresno County Board of Supervisors District 2 race that is held by a Republican and features two veteran Republican politicians, a 27-year-old small business owner making his political debut ...
This list of political parties in the United States, both past and present, does not include independents. Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate.