Why Texas Republicans Won Hispanic Men

Authors

Robert M. Hardaway, University of Denver Sturm College of LawFollow

Publication Date

12-16-2014

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Sturm College of Law

Keywords

Texas, Republicans, Hispanic men, Immigration

Abstract

In 1969, Cesar Chavez and members of the United Farm Workers traveled to the Mexican border to protest the illegal immigration that was flooding the labor market with low-cost workers and reducing many of America’s legal Hispanic workers, most of them citizens, to poverty and desperation.

Joining him on the front lines were prominent Democrats like U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Despite Chavez and the UFW’s efforts, the power of employers eager to cut wages by importing cheap labor proved too much, and the government was content to sit back and watch.

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Robert Hardaway, Why Texas Republicans Won Hispanic Men, Tex. Trib: TribTalk (Dec. 16, 2014), https://www.tribtalk.org/2014/12/16/why-texas-republicans-won-hispanic-men/.