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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a PR nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No it is not. Guaranteed Trump Puerto Rican voters agree. They just think it's the other Puerto Ricians that are making it that way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Puerto Rican voters

Does someone else want to tell atempuser23?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You know there's a significant Puerto Rican population in New York and Florida, right?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

An estimated 5.8 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin lived in the United States in 2021

337 million in the US.

I wouldn't call 1.7% spread across 50 states significant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

1.7% is more than enough to flip some swing states. Most swing states.

And two in particular have more than an average number of Puerto Ricans.

So yeah, it matters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They're not spread across 50 states, there are large population groups in PA, NY, and FL.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good thing there's only 5 million people who once lived in Puerto Rico in the 50 states and hundreds of thousands in Pennsylvania particularly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateside_Puerto_Ricans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

1.7% nationally isn't much when spread out. I'm sure there are districts out there which are predominantly Puerto Rican, I just don't think they're a significantly large group.

Which is why I fully support making them a state and giving them due representation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In a close election, any decent percentage matters and they are not spread out evenly at all. For instance, there are 500,000 in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was won by only 42k in 2016

Plus a million in Florida - that can make the florida senate race a little more competitive. New York downballot races are a big part of why dems lost the house in 2022, and there's also around a million in New York

They should certainly have representation, yes, but that's not to say the Puerto Ricans in swing states / competitive downballot won't matter either