Abstract
The article shows the trajectory of the Latino vote in California and Texas. It explains how and why the electoral realignment occurred in California, which turned that state into a strong bastion of the Democratic Party. Data are shown that account for the demographic change suffered in that entity, where the Latino or Hispanic community has occupied a leading role in the elections. It exposes how the environment of political polarization that is lived in the United States, the increase in the population of Latinos, in addition to the ideological transformations within the Republican Party, are making Texas have more closed and competitive elections.
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