Latinos and Blacks Share Views on Climate Change

Khalil Abdullah writes for New America Media:

    Latino and African-American communities in the United States increasingly share similar views on the negative impact of climate change and call for government support for a green economy, according to two recently released polls.

    Polls say these results may be factors determining which candidates get these ethnic votes in the mid-term November elections.

    Among Nevada’s Latinos, for example, 93 percent of Republicans said, “take action now” on climate change, a higher rate even than the state’s Latino independents (89 percent) and Democrats (88 percent). In Florida, 80 percent of Latino voters said the issue of climate change would affect their decision of who to vote for in the U.S. Senate race. In Nevada and Colorado, 67 and 58 percent, respectively, made the same assertion.

    The Latino poll was conducted by the National Latino Coalition on Climate Change (NLCCC) on the views of Latino voters in Colorado, Florida, and Nevada; the poll on African-American voters in Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, and South Carolina was conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Click here for the rest of the story.

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