Cuban-Americans stun Republicans

FINANCIAL TIMES:   More Cuban-Americans, once a reliable conservative bulwark in Florida, voted for Barack Obama in Tuesday’s election than Mitt Romney, underscoring the breadth of the demographic wave that engulfed the Republican party…

Unlike older members of the community, who fled Cuba and have direct memories of communist rule, most second-generation Cubans do not vote according to memories of their parents’ homeland.

“They are much more similar in voting patterns to Hispanics in the rest of the country,” said the Obama official…   (more)

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