Which party does a better job of attracting the Latino vote will continue to be very important because of the tremendous rate at which this population is growing. According to political researchers, about 750,000 Hispanics will become eligible to vote each year over the next twenty years, so the political impact of the Latino community in the United States is undeniable. Now, to better understand the perspective U.S. Hispanics have on politics and issues of race and class, one must go back to the history of Spain and its colonization of the New World.