In wendy miami. Joining us now is gary a professor at stanford and the coauthor of this book will be no america how americas most dynamic population was poised to transform the politics of the nation. How do you define latino . Anyone that identifies the defendant. This is the population that is defended in the nation. And you said serving. What do you mean by that its based on the work that we do do in that decision on the research that focuses on what he knows. Primarily for political purposes but also for social and advocacy. We interviewed about 80,000 people over the last seven years and we asked them different questions in the government, politics, society, life in the United States, families and health and any topic you can imagine. As the 2010 census it is arrayed around a 17 . Of the population change quickly over time but it should be creeping up in the 20 range. Translate that into numbers. Theres about 55 million latinos in the United States. How many of them are citizens and how many of them are here illegally there are about 11 million undocumented and about 60 of them are hispanics may be 5. 5. The rest of the position are either illegal either Illegal Immigrants are naturalized citizens or nativeborn citizens and the distribution depends on the Adult Population about 60 are citizens of the United States either through native or naturalization. Almost 18 . They are eligible for the electorate, not the naturalization for turning 18. 17 , that is going cut that is going up into the 20 of the population. What about the voting population, what percentage are latino . In the 2014 election, about 8 . In the 2012 election coming up 10 . And the reason that fluctuates is that workingclass people and people of color of all racial and ethnic groups turn out. The liver turnout lower turnout. At the level of democratic turnout was low because of the sword of dispirited. And the overall interest in the government right now is that unhappiness and the sense of alienation because it took apart but going back to 2012, it was 10 . If you look at the history is 8 in 2008 can actually 9 in 2008 and 10 in 2012. It is stepping up. But as you can imagine for a variety of reasons but noncitizens obviously are counted in the electorate that is one big group and the other is the age distribution. When you look at the voting population, what are some of the issues that latinos in america look at the focus on the percentage for the senate . There are a variety of issues that are important. Prior to the integration today, the institute when we ask what is the most important issue facing the country from your perspective with education, jobs and health care and public safety. So, when he became the speaker in the late 90s to say it is the american agenda because everybody is in favor of jobs come everybody wants the healthcare and good schools and those are the issues that they most often identified. Until we get to the immigration and becomes a very big issue. In the last four or five years theyve been fluctuating depending on the environment at the time because the recession had a great impact. Sobriquet down democrats and republicans. The numbers are going to be greater and showing that more and more people in terms of the party registration. With that said when they turn out to vote historically for the last 30 years or so its about two thirds or one third of democrats or republicans. The percentage was cut to about 70 in the president ial elections because this today. Latino immigrants, do they tend to be more republican than guestworkers or undocumented . They are more likely when they enter the population electorate to market democrats and other latinos. Republican latinos come from two different categories. The first is here in miami. Cubanamericans are obviously outspoken. And theyve played a pivotal role in the politics and then the other group would be the third or fourth generation highly assimilated social up bringing. And through the 80s and early 90s we saw those folks becoming more republican until the immigration debate heated up and some of them ran back in the democratic identities because they saw. I want to make a point about cubans we spend enough time talking about the cuban american politics. They are only three and a half of the national bettina population. In the subtitle you use the word dynamic. Why do you call them the most dynamic . It means movement. They are dynamic in a variety of different ways. If you go back and they were mostly in the south west come if you look today they are the largest minority in 30 states and actually the ability of California Latino voters made a difference in georgia and kansas. There is a growing population in iowa and Arkansas Company says you dont normally. So the population is on the move so we look at the three quarters of the vote among the less he knows and they say it is and interesting but we dont have to go backwards. When george w. Bush was running for the election so they are moving from 40 republicans and 25 republicans and that movement we dont get in any other, but the popular perception which is really interesting. The other word that you used its transform. I think that the presence of the political structure has the opportunity to change the political dynamics in a variety of locations. If you look at some of the Southern States that georgia and what has long been the paradigm in politics and society its becoming a multiracial paradigm and you get these moments where the africanamericans are taking the lead on issues like Immigration Reform because the coalitions are working to make the politics work and it will be going forward. You look at places like texas that has the opportunity to become a Democratic State if the latino population is thoroughly engaged to be registered and motivated. That has not happened yet. People like to ask us when will texas turn blue and. Its probably the case of the majority of the population. 32 of the 2010 or the 28th elections and the electorate. I know that its a little bit earlier to make that judgment. My initial reaction was its a very big policy when it did very big political win though neither is ideal so i think the immigration advocates like that piece of legislation beyond the life of this administration. That clearly wasnt going to happen. They were back on the senate bill. And most advocates in the house of representatives would tell you that there is a majority in the house and the senate bill which is precisely why the speaker wont bring it to the floor. So, in that sense, the political win for the democrats was huge because they will call us behind the democrats more enthusiastically than they have even so far. And remember that the turnout was down a little bit and a little disappointed. This will be a political boom for whoever will see him at the top of the ticket in 2015. Do you understand the frustration that some people feel feel that all of a sudden allowing and making an executive order with regard to immigration instead of having to go through the congress . I do and i dont. Some of it is manufactured because they are told that hes acting unconstitutionally and is breaking the law. If that is the case when Ronald Reagan broke the law and George Herbert walker bush broke the law. But in terms of the frustration they have a bill of their own. The other reason i sort of reject the frustration is that we have to remember what it is that undocumented immigrants do in the United States. They processed the need, they do the ugly, nasty, unpleasant painful jobs that very few americans have a willingness to apply for. Any time that one of our listeners today is a strawberry reads a piece of chicken, their life has been subsidized by the labor of those undocumented workers. So come if you really want to deal with the frustration we need to have an environment. The coauthor of this book Latino America how americas most dynamic population is poised to transform the politics of the nation and he also teaches at stanford. Professor, thank you for your time on the tv. Lieutenant colonel talks about the development and effectiveness of the counterinsurgency strategy the u. S. 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