Fuck Trump with Vance's head. That should fix them both.

I wouldn't have thought they would in 24, and yet they did.

If there is a serious change in the Latino polls in favor of
Democrats, I suspect there will be serious voter suppression
put in place.

Not only that, ICE will detain, arrest, and/or deport more of them
I suspect.

I wouldn't mind being talked down on this.

and anti-abortion.

THe culture wars reaches to them strongly.

Ted Cruz won them over by focusing on the transgender
issue.

I wouldn't put it past Texas politicians to reach out to
their hate again.

The Catholic Church ran rampant through Latin America and they are actually now their biggest consituency (which is why the last 2 Popes came from there and/or had served there as Cardinals).

When I went on vacation to Mexico back in '89, I saw the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The HUGE plaza in front of the entrance was filled with "pilgrims" who were literally crawling on their knees towards the doors.

You have the same issue with (observant) Irish, French, and Italian (Roman) Catholics.

The U.S. system of racism/white supremacy will temporarily consider some POC as "white". And then the "rules change" and they get thrown under the bus like the rest of the POC. We are watching that bus throw right now.

That's because of the way Spanish oppression worked in Latin
America.

Once I learned this, I started observing my Latino students
always displaying statues and pictures of Mary in their homes,
and wearing Marian necklaces and rosaries ... even the
gangbangers.

I had one gangbanger in my class who wore a rosary, and once
I took him outside the classroom and asked him if Mary was
special to him. He said yes. Even my hardest gangbangers
were mushpots sometimes, and I was always happy to find
a good human connection with them since it could change
their lives at some point.

but that also gets a nod in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Episcopal Church, where there is usually an altar dedicated to her in the church called "The Lady Altar".

When I got out of college and before I got my federal job, I was a substitute teacher in the Philly schools and was assigned to junior and senior high schools in what was dubbed one of the "worst" areas within the district at the time - which included parts of North & Northeast Philly - Juniata Park, Frankford, Kensington, & Port Richmond. That area had one of the highest teacher and student absentee rates so continually needed subs. I eventually ended up doing long-term subbing (for teachers who had medical or educational sabbaticals) toward the latter part of my time doing subbing.

At the time, i was only a few years older than most of the kids, so we seemed to quickly bond, and they told me how the neighborhoods were split by race/ethnicity, where back then (and still today to a degree), from Broad St. to 8th St. was black, from 7th St. to B street was Hispanic (but also Arab), and from C Street to Richmond St. (by the Delaware River), was white. And my last long-term sub position was at Kensington High, where the school was amazingly 1/3rd, 1/3rd, 1/3rd, drawing students from all 3 sections. I ended up with 5 classes and 125 students (with some of the classes that had upwards of 40 kids).

You had Polish Catholics in that area as well, reinforcing the Hispanic Catholics, where many of their homes often had some kind of small altar to Mary with the infant Jesus, along with a crucifix on the wall. It was just part of their lives (in a cultural sense), where their grandparents and great-grandparents were fixtures in the little Catholic churches dotted all over their neighborhoods (many of them now closed), and it was an overlay that attempted to instill and reinforce some kind of "moral guardrails" within a household.

The Irish Catholics went through the same oppression
but still hold onto the male god -- although the women
became the strong dominant force in the family and
community.. which holds to this day.

My entire Irish Catholic family has historically consisted
of very strong women and weak men. They have
run businesses, founded organizations, and one was
the first woman to run for publc office in Nebraska...
and that holds to this day.

was not to mess with the Irish woman & the Italian woman because they "ran the household", probably because the men were always starting wars and fighting in them, leaving the women to handle everything else. I won't even get into the black woman!

It was passed on from mother/grandmother/sister/aunt to daughter.

This is probably why women were subsequently infantilized and objectified due to the disconnect by men, from the reality of what was actually going on within a supposed "patriarchal world", and they needed to keep the patriarchy supreme.

The males were not safe, so the mothers had to do everything.

They took over the household, did the jobs, and kept the boys
close and coddled.

And that's exactly how boys have been raised in my family
since the Dores came here from Limerick in 1849.

And it doesn't matter what ethnicity or religion the husband
is. If the wife was raised Irish Catholic, all the kids are
raised that way too.

My dad was southern Methodist from rural Texas. And I
totally identify as Irish Catholic, and so do all my brothers
and sisters, whether we actually practice or believe in the
religion is irrelevant. My sisters and I are strong and
independent; my brothers are weak and dependent on women.

not so much the women.

I'm almost sure. Hispanics are the largest minority at this school.

While enrollments are up this semester, when this takes effect, they will nosedive, at least with Hispanics.