3 Kansas counties that helped Hamilton win US Senate seat have majority Latino populations

By: Anna Kaminski

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: November 5, 2026

Words: 804

Last Updated: 4 days, 3 hours ago

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TOPEKA — Ford, Finney and Seward counties in western Kansas historically haven’t been Democratic strongholds.

But three cities in each county are home to large Latino populations, in part because of meatpacking industry jobs, and those three cities were hit recently with sweeping federal immigration raids that led to children not showing up to school, delayed start times at meatpacking plants and instigated fear across the communities.

Republicans, in …

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