The GOP no longer has a lock on Florida’s Hispanic voters
Tagged: hispanic voters, Little HavanaPosted on: October 8th, 2007“Amid the sound of ivory dominoes slapping on metal tables, Jorge Alonso paused as he chomped on a cellophane-wrapped cigar.
“I adore this country, and it is due to Richard Nixon,” he said, explaining how his admiration for the former president’s fierce anti-communist views led him into the arms of the GOP, where he has stayed for almost four decades.
Dozens of men like Alonso gather daily at Maximo Gomez Park, a concrete sliver on which a dozen chess and domino tables sit in the heart of Little Havana, just west of the towering skyscrapers that dominate the downtown skyline.”
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