In the days and weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, pundits, politicians and reporters investigated the ways in which minority voters could affect each race. However, they may have overlooked an increasingly large bloc of voters \u2013 the New Americans.<\/p>\n
The New Americans, a loosely defined group that includes naturalized U.S. citizens as well as the U.S.-born children of immigrants whose parents came from Latin American and Asia after 1965, are quickly gaining a powerful clout in the voting booths. More in tune with their families\u2019 past than the rest of America, New Americans are largely sensitive to immigration law and immigration reform. They turn out in droves against politicians who use anti-immigrant rhetoric, much more so than the people who support that rhetoric.<\/p>\n
A recent Immigration Policy Center special report found that New Americans counted for 10.2 percent of all registered voters in 2008, which was a 101.5 percent increase from 1996. (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the days and weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, pundits, politicians and reporters investigated the ways in which minority voters could affect each race. However, they may have overlooked an increasingly large bloc of voters \u2013 the New Americans.…<\/span><\/p>\n