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Going to laugh my tits off if the Puerto Rican vote sinks Trump's campaign and they kill that dumbass comedian. (hexbear.net)

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It'd be his first good punchline.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

Puerto Ricans mostly live in urban constituencies so their vote was going to the Democrats no matter what

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (2 children)

The stateside Puerto Rican community is increasingly suburbanized and also has greatly dispersed. Puerto Ricans are today less numerous in their traditional enclaves in NYC and elsewhere as they have spread to the suburbs. Texas and Ohio have seen huge increases in their Puerto Rican populations in the last decade.

Florida is also notable in that it has had a huge Puerto Rican community for years, centered on central Florida where they buck the stereotypical “urban” trend. This community has always been large and has continued to grow rapidly while other traditional Puerto Rican communities (NYC) have shrunk.

But also this ignores the history of Puerto Rican migration to the mainland. Yes the urban concentrations are probably more well-known, but there’s also a long history of Puerto Ricans migrating to rural communities as farmhands (esp in the 60s and 70s after the Bracero Program ended)