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The Latino Shift Toward Trump in South Texas: Anomaly or Realignment?


While Biden earned more than three-quarters of votes in precincts with high Latino  concentrations in Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and El Paso counties, according to UCLA’s Latino  Policy and Politics Institute, large swaths of the Rio Grande Valley are more demographically  similar to areas where Trump enjoyed a great amount of support than to urban areas….

While Biden earned more than three-quarters of votes in precincts with high Latino  concentrations in Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and El Paso counties, according to UCLA’s Latino  Policy and Politics Institute, large swaths of the Rio Grande Valley are more demographically  similar to areas where Trump enjoyed a great amount of support than to urban areas. (Also:  MSN News, National Review Online, and Press Form.)