universitycarolina professor benjamin francis fallon talks about the spanish speaking vote in the 20th century. he describes a group with distinct interests and voting patterns and outlines how the national democratic and republican parties have courted various hispanic constituencies. this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> professor benjamin francis fallon studies and teaches this. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? >> no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people that saw themselves quite the family -- differently in national origin terms, for example, mexican-americans, puerto ricans, cubans, the whole project if you will is one of trying to bring very different peoples together into some kind of coalition or consensus about what they all stood for and it has been a project that has revealed over the years to be very diverse internally. but that has always been one of the ambitions of the people that are fundamentally alike, they ought

steve: professor benjamin francis-fallon is somebody who studies and teaches this at western carolina university. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? prof. francis-fallon: no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people who saw themselves quite differently in national origin terms. for example, mexican-americans, puerto ricans, or cubans. the whole hispanic vote project, if you will, was one of trying to bring very different people s together into some kind of coalition or consensus about what they all stood for, and it has been a project that has over the years been revealed to be very diverse internally. definitely not. but that has always been one of the ambitions of the people who propel hispanic politics, that there should be this unity of , who aree fundamentally so much alike that they ought to act as one. so there has been that distance between the ambition of some architects of latino politics and the reality of people with very different origins and experiences. steve: let's talk about t

steve: professor benjamin francis-fallon is somebody who studies and teaches this at western carolina university. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? prof. francis-fallon: no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people who saw themselves quite differently in national origin terms.

universitycarolina professor benjamin francis fallon talks about the spanish speaking vote in the 20th century. he describes a group with distinct interests and voting patterns and outlines how the national democratic and republican parties have courted various hispanic constituencies. this 15 minute interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> professor benjamin francis fallon studies and teaches this. let's talk about the hispanic vote. is it a monolithic group? >> no, definitely not. the history of the hispanic vote is one of steadily trying to add different people, people that saw themselves quite the family -- differently in national origin terms, for example, mexican-americans, puerto ricans, cubans, the whole project if you will isne

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