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And it was made real in no small part thanks to the bigotries evident in that piece of hate mail. They created the very thing they feared.
So thank you, tin foil hat dude. I didn't think I would see these kinds of alliances in my lifetime. I'm glad to have been wrong.
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I live in a city with a lot of Muslim residents, and have been baffled for years that the Evangelical Christians never realized that
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...they could have allied with them on a number of social issues? For years, anyway, this was an option.
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But no, they decided to demonize the hell out of them instead. So Somali immigrants are almost all Democrats, and have shifted left
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on social issues, partly out of pragmatism and partly out of the sort of exposure you get when all your friends are liberals.
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I am so glad to have Somali-Americans as part of the DFL. (And as part of my city and community.)
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Alliances can be a weird and magical thing.
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We still have a long way to go here in South East Asia.
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