Latino Political Preference

With the Latino population ever increasing, it is projected that in as little as 25 years, minorities will be the new majority with Latinos making up a large part of the population. With a changing population, comes a changing electorate. Latinos in the future will have more say in politics and policy. A way to see potential changes in the future, data from the present is analyzed to predict the possible political effects the increase Latinos will have on the nation’s ideology. Ideology is too broad however so issue positions ranging from economic and social issues were studied. The research question at hand is studying if Latinos have a differing ideology from Caucasians, and if there are differing ideologies, how drastic is the distance of each demographic’s ideology. The research utilized survey responses from a large database called CCES, which distributes biannual surveys. The most recent survey analyzed was the 2018 edition, which was a studied using R software through the program R studios. R studios allowed for the survey to be analyzed and described through stats, the most common being regressions to see how variables correlate and affect one another. The findings go on to illustrate that there is a significant difference from Latinos and Caucasians, however the difference is very minimal. Thus, even in a changing electorate, the future does not seem to hold a drastic change in ideology, which may translate little to no change in policy.