Dissecting the Latino Vote
1,400 views · Published 4 March 2016 · 4:56 · Indexed 21 October 2026
Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2016 · Entertainment
Watch Vanderbilt University professor of political science Efrén Pérez dissect the Latino vote in the 2016 election. When Latinos hear tough talk about immigrants and immigration from politicians, their level of political trust is reduced and they start identifying more with their ethnic group than other qualities such as class or religion. “The temptation to berate foreigners for their alleged shortcomings is hard for many politicians to resist,” said Efrén Pérez of Vanderbilt University, who studied the results of a national sample of Latinos. “Such rhetoric seems to pay politically.” Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
