Document Type
Article
Major
Political Science
Mentor
Prof. Virginia Hettinger, Dept. of Political Science
Disciplines
American Politics | Political Science
Abstract
In the 2024 Presidential election, Donald Trump won 43% of the Latino male vote and 32% of the Latina vote, despite his history of anti-immigration and anti-Latino rhetoric. This 11-point gender gap among Latino voters exceeded the seven-point gender gap among white voters. Although Trump ran on anti-immigration policy, Latino male voters recorded their main concerns as inflation and jobs, suggesting a divergence between Latino male voters’ perceptions of their interests and those of the larger Latino community. Schaffner and Soler (2025) argue that this divergence is because Latino men who support Trump no longer identify primarily as Latino.
This study assesses the relationship between rejecting the Latino ethnic label and anti-immigration sentiment among Latinos. Contrary to expectations those who rejected the Latino label between 2020 and 2024 were not more likely to express anti-immigration sentiment. While men overall are more likely to express anti-immigration sentiment, Latino men express higher support for pro-immigration sentiment than non-Latino men. Results also show that multi-generational Americans are less likely than naturalized immigrants to support pro-immigration policy.
Recommended Citation
Ratib-Eixarch, Nadia, "I, Too, am America: Latino Men, American Identity, and Support for Conservative Immigration Policy" (2026). Holster Scholar Projects. 75.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_holster/75
Comments
The author thanks the Holster Scholars Program and the UConn Honors Program for support.