A significant percentage of Latino voters supported Trump because they perceived him as an entry point into whiteness and believed they were not the targets of his anti-immigrant rhetoric.

“I think in Trump, they saw power, and they saw an entry point, you know, into whiteness. They saw themselves as as part of a group because they didn't want to be cast with those other bad immigrants, you know? They wanted to prove to this Trump world that they were not those bad guys.”