ROSWELL (DAILY PLANET) – President Bush scored big among recent immigrants to the United States, earning ten percent more Hispanic votes than he did in the 2000 election. He also scored well among the Extraterrestrial immigrants who have been living in the Roswell region since 1947. As the following county-by-county map shows, the part of New Mexico where Roswell is located (the southeast region of the state) voted solidly Republican.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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This is very revealing if it is real. Is it? What is the source? What are the gray areas? I’ll have more to say if it truly reflects the county-by-county red/blue majorities, not a joke or just a fun thing, like the JibJab movie you posted yesterday. That was really fun and fairly even handed.
The Daily Planet part is (obviously) a joke, but the map is real. I pulled it from USA Today. I’m not sure what the grey areas mean, but I presume they are counties that hadn’t yet been called at the time USA Today made the map. More filled-in maps probably either are available or will be soon.
Hmmm…what’s up with the southern half of Texas. Are they not real Texans?
I think those areas probably have a lot of Mexican immigrants who preferred Kerry’s stances on immigration.
Jimmy, it sounds like the next step is to convert these aliens to Catholicism. Do you think they listen to Catholic Answers on the Internet, short wave, or subspace frequencies?
We haven’t got any calls from subspace listeners yet, but we get a bunch of calls from listeners of Sirius Sattelite Radio.
Jimmy,
I think we have to be a little cautious about making the claim that Hispanics voted more in favor of Bush than before. That claim was made when Bush won reelection in Texas and in 2000, but was then refuted.
Let’s be clear: (1) the Republicans lost the Hispanic vote; (2) Hispanics are the fastest growing portion of the population; and (3) therefore, the growth of Hispanics will make it increasingly difficult for Republicans to win elections.
That would suggest, if true, and I wonder, that hispanics are not faithful Catholics, by and large. One wonders if that could really be true.