And while Latinos tend to vote Democratic, evangelical Latinos swing: they supported Mr Bush in 2004 and Mr Obama in 2008.Given the traditional strength of Republicans among evangelicals and the record number of illegal immigrants, mostly Latino, deported by Mr Obama's administration, Latino evangelicals ought in theory to be easy pickings for Mr Romney in 2012.
Spanish might be the first language we learned growing up in Latin America, or the first language we learned being born in the US, but many Latinos do most of our formal learning in English – and it influences our understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of our mother tongue.
Sábado Gigante always gave America's diverse Latinos a shared pop culture vernacular; for immigrant families, it gave us something to connect to with family back home.
Sábado Gigante brought Latinos together across continents and generations, it's true, but its misogyny and racism became its hallmarks even as the Latinos watching outgrew them.
And, for second generation Latinos who discreetly agonize over our Spanish language attrition.
Sábado Gigante's interracial sketches illustrate the stubborn inequity among Latinos in the Americas: although we share a geographic region, Latinos are not one race of people.
Saturday nights for Latinos are usually family nights, and the variety show Sábado Gigante – the Miami-based Spanish-language hybrid of Benny Hill, Saturday Night Live and The Price is Right, which aired across the Americas for 53 years – has long been a big part of that.
Nearly nine out of ten Latinos support Obama's policy of permitting young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children to remain and work in the country.
There are black, indigenous, white, Asian and mixed Latinos who are all subjected to a racial hierarchy – an order that Sábado Gigante doesn't challenge.
"Violence and the use of illicit violence versus people of color, particularly blacks and Latinos, is as routine in Chicago as traffic lights".
Latinos, soon to be California's biggest ethnic group, suffer disproportionately.
