Are Latinos Really Realigning Toward Republicans?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Most broadly, about three-fifths of all Latinos, including roughly that many Latinos without a college education, agreed in the PRRI polling that "the Republican Party has been taken over by racists."
51% : On gun control, the split was similar: A majority of Latinos took positions that align with Democrats and directly collide with the dominant view among Republicans.
47% : Almost daily, a different New York Times writer offers some version of the claim that, as David Leonhardt wrote last week, "the social liberalism of Democrats -- on immigration, marijuana, L.G.B.T. rights, affirmative action, abortion and more -- has simultaneously attracted progressive college graduates and repelled more culturally conservative working-class voters."
45% : In recent polling by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, two-thirds of Latinos said abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances.
45% : In 2021 polling by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, about two-thirds of Latinos -- including more than three-fifths of those without a college degree -- said they believed gun laws should be made more strict and supported a ban on both assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
44% : In PRRI polling, more than two-thirds of Latinos opposed Trump's efforts to build a border wall and large majorities of Latinos think undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. should be eligible for citizenship, another idea opposed by almost all House and Senate Republicans.
41% : "There is data right now that says Latinos are angry about the overstepping of Republicans" on abortion, Tory Gavito, the president of Way to Win, a group that mobilizes support for causes and candidates that focus on communities of color, told me.
40% : Take abortion.
40% : The survey also found that big majorities of Latinos opposed the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion, measures Republican-controlled states are discussing to prohibit women from traveling across state lines to seek an abortion, and prohibiting women from receiving abortion medication through the mail.
30% : "Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters concerned more about issues like gun control and abortion rights.

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