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No, I missed it. But I'm curious about the response of the audience. The Hispanics are by no means a monolithic bloc, and I think both parties are making a big mistake if they think they can craft a "Hispanic strategy". In Miami, for example, there is little sympathy amongst the Cubans for illegal aliens, since they are mostly legal themselves. They are generally social liberals but pro-business, on the other hand, they support socialized medicine.They're very anti-communist but divided on whether relations with Cuba should be relaxed, and generally keep their religion to themselves. They mostly know English already and have little sympathy for bilingual issues, and are usually middle class. They are very different from the Mexicans, Central Americans, Columbians and Puerto Ricans., and they are all different from each other. The Republicans have the Cubans locked up unless they sense any drift towards normalization with Castro, in which case I predict they'll go Democratic. It should be interesting.

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