@gungasnake,
This is just one of those pieces that the unsophisticated can easily misinterpret.
When I was in college in Detroit during the late 1960s, the school and the community were both full of Cuban exiles. They were largely conservative, many of them pugnaciously so.
While many were intelligent and academically capable -- something that can not often be said of the American right-winger -- they here as exiles because they were on the right.
So what?