Latinos In The Dotte Reject Culture War?!?!

Maybe . . .

There's also a very good chance that ethnic working-class residents don't have enough time to watch cable TV news chatter and obsess about it.

Here's a glimpse at progressives attempting to stake their claim in the barrio . . .

Several voter outreach activists told The Journal that Latino and Hispanic voting behaviors in Wyandotte County and Kansas likely mirror national trends. And all agreed that there remains a large pool of eligible Hispanic and Latino voters to tap. “We can tell when we go canvassing. We can tell when we poll,” says Aude Negrete, former executive director of the Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission. “When you go door to door, those precincts that have a high concentration of Latinos in Wyandotte County, we find that a lot of them are not registered and that there is a lack of engagement.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Latinos enrich the culture and economy of Wyandotte County. But what about political clout?

As Melissa Oropeza campaigned door to door last fall for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, she wanted to make sure she reached out to fellow Latino voters in Wyandotte County. But like most candidates with modest campaigns, Oropeza, along with her daughter, knocked only on the doors of registered voters who had participated in recent elections.