With nearly half of Hispanics identifying as Catholic ( 76% Christian ), Democrats are out of touch. While white liberals in Seattle, Washington, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, might agree with the new Democratic orthodoxy, those voters are in states that the party already has locked up. The party’s insistence on woke gender ideology, including in public schools, also probably isn’t helping them with Hispanics.

Nor will putting the gender unicorn in schools and men in women’s sports likely be winning issues with Hispanic voters. White liberals might think that stuff is great, but many others don’t.

In 2018, for example, the overwhelmingly Hispanic city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, voted against making gender identity a protected class in Massachusetts, even as the state voted 68% to 32% to make it happen. It was one of the only areas in the state with many Sen. Elizabeth Warren voters who didn’t want biological men in women’s only spaces such as restrooms and locker rooms.

Lawrence was also one of the few areas where Republicans made gains in the 2020 presidential election in Massachusetts. Democratic calls to defund the police and defense of rioters smashing windows and burning cities helped Republicans with Hispanics nationwide that year .