Regardless of whom Hispanics wind up supporting come November, Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California Berkeley, says there’s clearly a cautionary tale in all this. “Tension is nothing new between races and ethnicities in this country,” he says. “But it can be overstated … racial and ethnic relations are very complex to interpret. Plausible and correct are two different things.”

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