General Discussion

not in reference to recent elections.I'm not qualified to get into the weeds of almost any topic, so am at a disadvantage in being challenged on a different playing field.

"Turnout" refers to registered voters. It has been a byword for decades that Hispanics, particularly in the Southwest, are a "sleeping giant." This is to say that my guess is that a very large number of eligibles are not registered at all, besides what you cite as the futility of the registered ones who don't vote.

And the very different playing field you bring up introduced the idea of "bad citizens," which wasn't anywhere in my mind. My contrasting of the Black/LBJ emphasis on voting with Texas Mexican-Americans under-registering/voting is a matter of history, culture, and economic circumstances.