Hot Potato covers Latino electorate

Professor Piñon shows the distinction between different Spanish speaking immigrants during the past 150 years, assimilation and the election coming up.  - - Donna Poisl

By Faith Duarte

The Latino electorate needs to be viewed as more than one entity, political science Professor Fernando Piñon said during Tuesday’s Hot Potato lecture at the Methodist Student Center.

“Sometimes we refer to Latinos as ‘a sleeping giant’ ­— there’s only one  giant. But there’s really several giants instead of one,” he said.

He said most Hispanics have been assimilated into American society.

He said the Anglo-American electorate defines the American dream in terms of economic opportunity, while the Latino electorate defines it in terms of equal opportunity.
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