Explains why they succumb to the fear rhetoric. Polls say the numbers of people who fall for it is inversely related to the amount of immigrants where people live. West Virginia loves the rallies.
but then what about places like Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire? Not exactly Trump country and they're not full of immigrants. Must not be the whole picture.
It's an us vs. them rhetoric. When the crowd can be made to fear the outsider they will be irrational and follow whatever solution is put to them no matter how bad.In this thinking the outsider is a thing to be controlled otherwise they would takeover, which is going to be the case where you have a dwindling main population or just a small state/area amongst a larger group surrounding them.
Maybe this is just survivor bias. Immigrants go to places where the people already like immigration (kind of like how immigrants go disproportionately to economically strong areas) and don't go to the places where people already don't want immigration. It seems that the type of people who live on the east coast tend to like immigration, including the less economically attractive places like Maine and Vermont.
but on the subject of succumbing to cynical/racist/not-terribly-bright rhetoric... how about the new meme they've got going around lately that if only these so-called liberal states could see how awful immigrants were, like Texas and Florida have, then surely they would change their policy positions. To that end, they will spend millions of tax payer dollars to kidnap and traffick refugees in Texas to Martha's Vinyard... in Massachusetts... which already makes the above list. Above Texas, in fact.
Meanwhile California, New Jersey, and New York have more than anyone and they're not exactly red states... in fact every state on here is either a swing state or deep blue. So wth are they talking about "sharing the burden?" Not that reality matters anymore.
An immigrant can be everything from a foreign millionaire retiring in a country home to a uneducated and poor 25-year-old looking to make it in the drug trade.
I would argue migrants to areas such as Martha's Vineyard generally are more a kin to the first description.
Riiight... 18.4% of the population of Massachusetts are retired foreign millionaires... not Chinese, Dominican, and Haitian immigrants in Boston looking for jobs...
Just going to ignore the fact that you tacitly approve of my description of how those on the right see immigrants generally, or at least the ones you've implied are undesirable. Sad, but nothing new.
I grew up in Connecticut from the 1970s to mid-1990s. My schoolmates and teachers spoke Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Arabic (mostly from Lebanon), Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Jamaican Patois, French, Vietnamese, Korean, Cantonese, Tagalog, Mohawk (obv. not an immigrant language), Armenian, Lithuanian, and one of the languages from Kenya. There may have been more, but those are what I remember. This was one of the gritty former industrial cities, not the NYC commuter 'burbs or Yale areas. The factories attracted lots of immigrants. More recently the Ecuadorians I knew in NYC were attracted to the low real estate prices and the Hasids have opened an orthodox shul so Yiddish is now also spoken there. Not indicative of immigration, but still interesting in such a Catholic city.
The casinos probably hire huge numbers of immigrants on those visas Trump uses for people willing to work for less than minimum wage doing cleaning, landscaping, kitchen work, and then there is the huge amount of construction.
The casino response is right, but Trump has nothing to do with it. Immigrants doing, as you say, "cleaning, landscaping, kitchen work" has been going on for decades.
I bet it would have been from about 1930-1960; both because there were fewer immigrants in some other states and also because there were huge numbers of immigrants flooding into Chicago. Population has been in steady decline since then, though the Chicago suburbs continue to grow.
when Arizona and New Mexico didnt work, I tried Colorado, Utah and Oregon but man, Nevada just randomly up there. Makes sense, like LA, prob a crap ton of people come there for work.
Meanwhile California, New Jersey, and New York have more than anyone and they're not exactly red states... in fact every state on here is either a swing state or deep blue. So wth are they talking about "sharing the burden?" Not that reality matters anymore.
An immigrant can be everything from a foreign millionaire retiring in a country home to a uneducated and poor 25-year-old looking to make it in the drug trade.
I would argue migrants to areas such as Martha's Vineyard generally are more a kin to the first description.
Just going to ignore the fact that you tacitly approve of my description of how those on the right see immigrants generally, or at least the ones you've implied are undesirable. Sad, but nothing new.