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“But as the administration has increasingly adjusted its plan, the one thing that has cleared up in living color is the opposition to the war by a strong majority of U.S. voters, especially among Hispanics.
Having turned away from the Republican Party in 2006 largely because of congressional Republicans’ rough handling of legal and illegal immigration policies, U.S.-born and foreign-born Hispanics are saying by even greater margins that they oppose the Iraq war.
From a group that once seemed gettable by Republicans like Ronald Reagan and Bush because of “shared conservative values” such as patriotism, Hispanic anti-Iraq-war sentiment is not about lacking national allegiance, but of a military service history that often stems from contrasting socioeconomic concerns. Many low-income Hispanics and immigrants want to serve, and also see the military as a way station to college or job training. “
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