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i m going to tell you what s going on in your house right now. i know, i feel you. been there, done that. if we catch them at that age, mold their minds, teach them what it is to be motivated, self-inspired, believe in themselves. because coming from the neighborhoods that we came from, nobody believes in us. this is changing the world, literally. little, by little. his message is always positive. it s always about education. you need to study, you need to be good for yourself. don t let anybody tell you that you can t do it. and the students really thrive on that. we re in the inner city, we re the toughest part of town, and it s just beautiful to see all these kids here, thriving. and as motivated as they are. armando s drive to inspire, to make music, to live up to his mr. worldwide moniker, all originate with the same goal. making his cuban american community proud. there s nothing like walking down the street and a little old lady comes to you and says, my
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starting to lean the more african-americans do on jobs and economics. if democrats can register more voters and they probably will because they have a better relationship with hispanics, then i think that, yeah, texas in ten years will be competitive. the sort of latin the story of latin immigration in the u.s. may not be, you know, my mother crossed the border from mexico. i was indicated in stanford and harvard. i don t speak spanish. i can speak to the latten community. i can speak to hispanic concerns. i can speak to national concerns. that seems to be the model for the castros at least. it s just getting more complicated. i mean, what a cuban-american has in common with dominicans or puerto ricans in new york? obama won the cuban vote for the first time. if you even look within the cuban vote, there s a big shift between older cubans who are very conservative and vote republican, and younger ones who think very different about differently about a whole bunch of issues, and m
the biggest problem in the new york times writes is the voter participation. only about half of eligible hispanic voters show up nationwide. this edged up slightly in 2012 to 53%. in texas just 4.1 million hispanics are registered to vote, and only about half make it into the voting booth. sthoo that is actually the reason why democrats have not been competitive, not just in texas but states like nevada where you have large hispanic populations but they don t participate. there are parallels between what texas is going through and florida went through. you know, florida was a lean sort of republican because you had this overweight of the cuban-american population. the beg bulk of the hispanic cuban-canadian. good point. good point. the vast majority, something like 60% to 65% of american hispanics are of mexican background like the castro brothers. the growth opportunity is in people who have an afint culturally with second and third generation. not necessarily spanish speaking h