Good sign….maybe the South Florida Hispanics are finally seeing where a Republican vote will get them…..

In the battle for Hispanic votes this fall, South Florida may well be “ground zero.”

That’s according to Sergio Bendixen, a pollster who released new data Wednesday from a survey funded by the Hispanic voter registration group, Democracia USA.

Increasingly, non-Cuban Hispanics, young voters and independents dominate a region that was once a Cuban-American Republican stronghold.

Cuban moderates and Puerto Ricans, as well as South and Central American immigrants, are behind the change.

“Hispanics are taking a much closer look at what party they join, if they join at all,” said Jorge Mursuli, who heads Democracia USA.

Democrats and Republicans pretty evenly hold just over 35 percent of registered Hispanics, but independents have risen to 30 percent, according to the study.

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