On Monday, February 16th at the National Press Club in D.C., the 10-month-old American Principles Project launched the “Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.” The American Principles Project, a group founded by Princeton’s Robert George to build a grassroots movement around conservative ideas, sponsored a panel today CPAC about the rise of Latino conservatism. According to the panelists, the Latino Partnership plans to take a politically active role in the 2010 elections and beyond in moving Latino voters to the right.
To the panel, the relationship between conservatives and American Hispanics is necessarily symbiotic. On the one hand, given demographics—by 2050, Hispanic Americans will constitute one quarter of the U.S. population—conservatives need the Hispanic vote, which tips the scale in local and state-wide races in places like Colorado, California, Texas, and New Mexico.
