Saturday’s Democratic Caucus in Nevada is exposing the evident and growing political differences between Latino boomers and millennials.
The Los Angeles Times reported that younger Hispanics, a large chunk of Nevada Democrats, are abandoning their parent’s candidate — Hillary Clinton — to “feel the Bern.”
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“The leadership that is older is all Clinton, but the younger Latinos, they’re with Sanders,” said Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, to the LA Times.
Gonzalez said his own family has experienced the rift with his daughters backing Sanders and his wife supporting Clinton.
“He’s not the same old, same old,” said college student Ivan Soto, who called Sanders a “role model.”
Despite the fact that the 74-year old Independent Democrat has literally been espousing the same beliefs for decades, and even though they have gone nowhere in Washington, millennials are drawn to his raw emotion.
Sanders’ appeal undercuts ethnicity and race. He’s drawing upon white millennials in New Hampshire and Iowa, just like he’s appealing to Latino millennials in Nevada.
