The progressive movement is genuinely very diverse but also has some very stark intersections. Young uneducated nonwhites are more likely to be progressive than young uneducated whites. Young educated people of all races are more likely to be progressive than the uneducated. But due to educational inequalities, there are far more uneducated progressive nonwhites than educated progressive nonwhites. And due to those same inequalities plus sheer numbers, there are proportionally more educated white progressives than educated nonwhite progressives.
So what it all looks like is, an educated class of progressive elites who consider themselves to be pretty diverse - and genuinely ARE a LOT more diverse than non-progressives! - are basically lording their DEI program all over a group of the less educated who are much more nonwhite than themselves. And the less-educated nonwhites REALLY hate this, because their erstwhile "allies" keep going around showing their asses because they're still subject to the same blinders as any other whites obliviously dominating the spaces they inhabit.
Uneducated nonwhites also resent educated nonwhites a lot less than uneducated whites resent educated whites. Racial oppression breeds racial solidarity, after all. So, nonwhite progressives are actually pretty comfortably led by a quite eloquent and coherent strain of identity politics that doesn't really resemble the histrionic caricature that Fox News plucks from the excesses of educated progressive white-dominated circles.
Anyways, that's the big picture. To get back to your point, if we look specifically at the Hispanic cohort, they have the numbers to be the second-biggest group among educated progressive nonwhites. There genuinely is a cohort of young Hispanic progressive who either grew up as Dreamers or lived in communities affected by them, like AOC (her being one of the latter). But their being the second-biggest group among progressive nonwhites is actually not at all mutually exclusive with their being a minority among Hispanics overall. It's easy to miss this because people tend to overgeneralize when they're talking these kinds of statistics and demographics, but it's absolutely all true, and not contradictory.
Anyways, I was only talking about the progressive cohort of nonwhites who would happily bolt for DSA, and I think due to AOC's influence, Hispanics would probably actually dominate that party.
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So, here's the thing.
The progressive movement is genuinely very diverse but also has some very stark intersections. Young uneducated nonwhites are more likely to be progressive than young uneducated whites. Young educated people of all races are more likely to be progressive than the uneducated. But due to educational inequalities, there are far more uneducated progressive nonwhites than educated progressive nonwhites. And due to those same inequalities plus sheer numbers, there are proportionally more educated white progressives than educated nonwhite progressives.
So what it all looks like is, an educated class of progressive elites who consider themselves to be pretty diverse - and genuinely ARE a LOT more diverse than non-progressives! - are basically lording their DEI program all over a group of the less educated who are much more nonwhite than themselves. And the less-educated nonwhites REALLY hate this, because their erstwhile "allies" keep going around showing their asses because they're still subject to the same blinders as any other whites obliviously dominating the spaces they inhabit.
Uneducated nonwhites also resent educated nonwhites a lot less than uneducated whites resent educated whites. Racial oppression breeds racial solidarity, after all. So, nonwhite progressives are actually pretty comfortably led by a quite eloquent and coherent strain of identity politics that doesn't really resemble the histrionic caricature that Fox News plucks from the excesses of educated progressive white-dominated circles.
Anyways, that's the big picture. To get back to your point, if we look specifically at the Hispanic cohort, they have the numbers to be the second-biggest group among educated progressive nonwhites. There genuinely is a cohort of young Hispanic progressive who either grew up as Dreamers or lived in communities affected by them, like AOC (her being one of the latter). But their being the second-biggest group among progressive nonwhites is actually not at all mutually exclusive with their being a minority among Hispanics overall. It's easy to miss this because people tend to overgeneralize when they're talking these kinds of statistics and demographics, but it's absolutely all true, and not contradictory.
Anyways, I was only talking about the progressive cohort of nonwhites who would happily bolt for DSA, and I think due to AOC's influence, Hispanics would probably actually dominate that party.