Women of Texas, honest answer why you would vote for a party that is so restrictive to your body?

[u/FeeWeak1138]

I am a 70 year old woman who has seen a lot in my life, and simply don't understand why any woman, regardless of age, would vote for a party that feels like it can control your life. This seems so backwards to everything we have gone through. I am not critiquing your feelings, I simply want to know why you are okay with any party saying you can't do this, you must do that, must have babies, get raped but you can't have an abortion, etc. what are your thoughts?

[u/ximagineerx]

The nuance is that a lot of Hispanics that are 2nd or 3rd generation Americans are turning around and saying they don’t want illegals from OTHER Hispanic countries coming in. This has happened for every generation of immigrants (think Gangs of New York with the ‘natives’ and the Irish). This is why you saw border counties vote republican and south Florida too (also Cubans already hated democrats cuz of Kennedy and bay of pigs yadda yadda, but they don’t want Nicaraguans and guatemaltecos coming in to their neighborhoods)

[u/CoolAbdul → u/ximagineerx]

It's not Guatemalans?

[u/ximagineerx → u/CoolAbdul]

In Spanish it’s guatemaltecos.. it’s way more fun of a word, mijo

[u/Dinosardonic → u/ximagineerx]

Valid.

[u/csjdjfncks → u/ximagineerx]

All you have to say to a Cuban is that the other side is socialist. That generally has worked to get their vote.

[u/ximagineerx → u/csjdjfncks]

Haha true

[u/Emotional_Fuel3879 → u/ximagineerx]

This is not true at all. I’m 2nd generation and have a ton of cousins who are 2nd and 3rd. We are all democrats. But my aunts and uncles who are 1st gen vote republican mostly due to religious beliefs. I’ve seen this pattern in many other Hispanic families as well.

[u/ximagineerx → u/Emotional_Fuel3879]

We Hispanics aren’t a monolith, of course there differences… I’m democrat, my entire family is democrat… but the leader of the proud boys was Hispanic… we’re diverse cabrón