*Somewhere behind the wall-to-wall coverage of the Brussels attack there was this. Voters and caucus goers in Arizona Utah and Idaho (the American Samoa as well) chose presidential candidates. Trump won Arizona, Cruz won Utah; Clinton won Arizona and Sanders took Idaho and Utah. It looks like Hillary and Donald are closer to a nomination. How do you see things shaping up? VL
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Arizona Democratic primary on Tuesday, adding another win in a state with a large minority population.
Her victory will award her a majority of the state’s 85 delegates, putting her another step closer to securing the Democratic nomination.
Clinton has consistently outperformed Sanders in states where a sizable proportion of Democratic voters are black or Latino, in spite of the senator’s efforts to win over minorities. Arizona has the fourth-largest proportion of Latinos of any state, behind New Mexico, California and Texas. Latinos make up about 31 percent of the population in Arizona and about 22 percent of its eligible voters.
Clinton won a majority of Arizona Latino Democratic primary voters in 2008, and went on to defeat now-President Barack Obama in that contest.
Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs,” his Uncle Feliciano rages.
The Texas Mexicans’ attempts to take back their land from the Gringos and the rinches—the brutal Texas Rangers—fail. Guálinto’s father, who never participated in the seditionist violence, is murdered in cold blood, and Feliciano makes a death-bed promise to raise his nephew without hatred.
Young Guálinto comes of age in a world where Mexicans are treated as second-class citizens. Teachers can beat and mistreat them with impunity, and most of his Mexican-American friends drop out of school at a young age. But the Gómez family insists that he continue his education, which he will need in order to do great things for his people. And so his school years create a terrible conflict within him: Guálinto alternately hates and admires the Gringo, loves and despises the Mexican. Written in the 1930s but not published until 1990, George Washington Gómez has become mandatory reading for anyone interested in Mexican-American literature, culture and history.
By Elsie Foley, Huffington Post Politics
