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Hispanic population growing fast in South, Midwest
Only about 43 percent of Hispanics are old enough to vote now, Lopez said, compared with 78 percent of whites, 67 percent of African Americans and 53 percent of Asian Americans. That represents a coming swelling in the Hispanic youth vote, and so far that voice has been Democratic, with two-thirds of Hispanics backing President Obama in the 2008 election.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/31/MN031JNMA2.DTL#ixzz1O3vrDMFh
Only about 43 percent of Hispanics are old enough to vote now, Lopez said, compared with 78 percent of whites, 67 percent of African Americans and 53 percent of Asian Americans. That represents a coming swelling in the Hispanic youth vote, and so far that voice has been Democratic, with two-thirds of Hispanics backing President Obama in the 2008 election.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/31/MN031JNMA2.DTL#ixzz1O3vrDMFh