Inside the Hispanic vote: Growing in numbers, growing in diversity
Tagged: citizenship, Pew HispanicPosted on: September 30th, 2007“But its percentage of the electorate is lower than its numbers as a whole because of lower citizenship rates, less voter participation and a youthful demographic. Of the nation’s more than 44 million people of Hispanic origin, about a third are too young to vote.
But all that’s changing.
Before the midterm elections in 2006, the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based think-tank, estimated more than 17 million Hispanics would be eligible to vote in that election. The number represented a 7 percent increase from 2004.
The Hispanic share of the U.S. electorate increased from 8.2 percent to 8.6 percent during the same period, Pew estimated.”
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