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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...-conservatives-hispanic-voters_n_2253721.html
Yes, folks. Its Ann Coulter back at it again.
The conservative pundit penned a column Wednesday in which she lashed out at the deluge of unskilled immigrants pouring into the country and portrayed Latinos as a lazy underclass looking for a government handout. Coulter titles the piece America Nears El Tipping Pointo, presumably to make a virtue of her ignorance of the Spanish language.
In fact, Latinos use less than their fair share of government benefits. According to a study released this year by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 64 percent of the population in 2010 and received 69 percent of the entitlement benefits. In contrast, Hispanics made up 16 percent of the population but received 12 percent of the benefits, less than their proportionate share -- likely because they are a younger population and also because immigrants, including many legal immigrants, are ineligible for various benefits.
Coulter implies in her piece that non-whites are nitwits who deserve lives of misery and joblessness. She singles out immigrants from Latin America as particularly nitwitty, saying they have too many babies out of wedlock, without citing a published source for the assertion. Nearly half of undocumented-immigrant households -- 45 percent -- consisted of a spouse or cohabiting couple with one or more children, compared to 34 percent of legal immigrants and 21 percent of the U.S. born, according to a 2010 Pew Hispanic Study.
Apparently unaware that Latinos do not depend disproportionately on government benefits, Coulter writes:
That's a lot of government dependents coming down the pike. No amount of "reaching out" to the Hispanic community, effective "messaging" or Reagan's "optimism" is going to turn Mexico's underclass into Republicans Rather than being more hardworking than American, Hispanics actually work about the same as others, or, in the case of Hispanic women, less.
In fact, Latinos -- especially immigrants -- are more entrepreneurial than the general population. As Cristina Costantini points out in a piece for ABC/Univision, Hispanics created twice as many businesses as the general public since 2000, according to census data.
The reason I post this is not because Coulter is a racist, anti American, lying sack of dog poo, but because this is not just what many Republicans believe about hispanics its what they actually say about them.
Republicans don't have an hispanic problem. Republicans are a party of racists that doesn't care they are racist.
Yes, folks. Its Ann Coulter back at it again.
The conservative pundit penned a column Wednesday in which she lashed out at the deluge of unskilled immigrants pouring into the country and portrayed Latinos as a lazy underclass looking for a government handout. Coulter titles the piece America Nears El Tipping Pointo, presumably to make a virtue of her ignorance of the Spanish language.
In fact, Latinos use less than their fair share of government benefits. According to a study released this year by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 64 percent of the population in 2010 and received 69 percent of the entitlement benefits. In contrast, Hispanics made up 16 percent of the population but received 12 percent of the benefits, less than their proportionate share -- likely because they are a younger population and also because immigrants, including many legal immigrants, are ineligible for various benefits.
Coulter implies in her piece that non-whites are nitwits who deserve lives of misery and joblessness. She singles out immigrants from Latin America as particularly nitwitty, saying they have too many babies out of wedlock, without citing a published source for the assertion. Nearly half of undocumented-immigrant households -- 45 percent -- consisted of a spouse or cohabiting couple with one or more children, compared to 34 percent of legal immigrants and 21 percent of the U.S. born, according to a 2010 Pew Hispanic Study.
Apparently unaware that Latinos do not depend disproportionately on government benefits, Coulter writes:
That's a lot of government dependents coming down the pike. No amount of "reaching out" to the Hispanic community, effective "messaging" or Reagan's "optimism" is going to turn Mexico's underclass into Republicans Rather than being more hardworking than American, Hispanics actually work about the same as others, or, in the case of Hispanic women, less.
In fact, Latinos -- especially immigrants -- are more entrepreneurial than the general population. As Cristina Costantini points out in a piece for ABC/Univision, Hispanics created twice as many businesses as the general public since 2000, according to census data.
The reason I post this is not because Coulter is a racist, anti American, lying sack of dog poo, but because this is not just what many Republicans believe about hispanics its what they actually say about them.
Republicans don't have an hispanic problem. Republicans are a party of racists that doesn't care they are racist.
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