What Happened? Where was the "Latino Backlash"?

"If the 2008 turnover of presidential power was a story of the black vote, the 2016 race was expected

to be a story about the Latino vote.

Multiple outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic, were predicting that Trump had alienated—perhaps permanently—Latino voters across the country, spelling disaster for his campaign and possibly the Republican Party far into the future.

However, this mass alienation of Latinos failed to materialize, as Trump actually performed marginally better than Romney among both Latinos and blacks, gaining in both groups by two points. This paved the way for Trump's victory in the swing state of Florida." CH