Are Latino voters generally conservative or liberal?
For the most part I think Latinos on economic issues are very progressive, for the same reason that I think my parents are very progressive economically. They fought very hard, yet earned very little and so you want to know that people earn what they have and so I think most Latinos look at this and say, "You know, this station has a dream called the American dream, if you work very hard, you should be able to achieve it." And so economically I think Latinos as a whole are more progressively minded. In terms of some of their social values, I know that some people say that they are more conservative. I wouldn't say that they are so much conservative as much as I would say that they are family based. You oftentimes when you are not very wealthy, when you don't have a lot of financial means to do thing you have to depend on each other quite a bit within a family and so you begin to not only count on your family members but also do things for your family members, and you become very tight knit. So I think you find that on social values and social issues, Latinos tend to be very oriented towards family. On the issue of a woman's right to chose to have an abortion, I think you'll find that on the main, Latinos will say that we are very much against abortion but I think you'll find that a lot of Latinos will say, especially Latinas will say, "Wait a minute. I for the longest time had to put up with a man telling me what to do," and will say, "A woman would know best. I grew up in a very nurturing home. I'm not interested in having an abortion, but it that's what a woman chooses, I would like to let that woman decide." So I think that for the most part, and being a progressive Democrat, I would say that Latinos on the whole are progressive Democrats.
