Trends in evangelical Christianity are influencing Hispanics and their attraction to the GOP following recent elections.
For decades the politics of the Rio Grande Valley were a constant shade of blue — but like the river that separates Texas from Mexico, the hue may be getting more mixed and divided, especially by faith.
"And there's just a lot of, I guess, weird things going on in the world and it's just that makes more sense, like voting conservative, voting God," said Veronica Yanez. "We even had a voter registration booth at our church many times," Cabrera said. Cabrera, like his advisee, doesn’t hesitate to mix his religion with politics and he’s unapologetic about it.
Along Texas’ vast border counties, protestants, mostly pentecostal and evangelical, are gaining numbers and influence. Chesnut literally wrote the books on Protestantism’s inroads among traditionally Catholic Latin America and Latinos in the U.S.
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