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This political alignment is changing with the younger generation of Cuban Americans, who are no longer as reliably Republican as their parents and grandparents. Emigre politics no longer animates Cuban Americans who grew up in the USA.
It is true that anti-Castro conservative politics no longer dominates the political thinking of Cuban Americans as it once did, but it is still a predominant ideology; because conservative politics dovetails quite well with the assimilated, middle class status that most Cuban Americans aspire to.
Older Cubans do this when their kids tell them they are Democrats:
I also notice that despite the Duvalier dictatorship being deadlier, that policy doesn't exist for Haitians.
Well no. Duvalier wasn't "our" dictator. Batista was a good US puppet. Really he was more of the fruit company's puppet, but he was ours, not some black Frenchie.
Well no. Duvalier wasn't "our" dictator. Batista was a good US puppet. Really he was more of the fruit company's puppet, but he was ours, not some black Frenchie.
In short, America didn't want to see a stream of Black refugees in the USA.
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