Reality check: Not all people of color have deep ties to the Civil Rights Movement. Madrid said the Latino population was small during the Civil Rights era. Today, few children of immigrants who came after the 1960s know who civil rights leaders Gus Garcia, Héctor P. García or Dolores Huerta are. “Democrats cannot conceive that non-white voters are anything other than civil rights voters,” he said. * And it makes sense that, six decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Blacks would have moved beyond being united by old grievances.

Source: Washington Post March 13, 2024 19:17 UTC