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I hope that @HvonSpakovsky reads my thread where I blew up @AlexNowrasteh with facts from his own white paper. It's be awesome if Hans asked Alex the same questions I did and which Alex can't / won't answer.
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34/ i.e. this? https://twitter.com/BigRightBear/status/993509794660134912 …
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35/ if so, I already analyzed this graph a week ago and asked you a question, but you never respondedhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/991307305084956672 …
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36/ I am responding. See abovehttps://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993514628880785408 …
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37/ So here is my question: looking at figure 18 (the one you are calling our attention to), it looks like immigrants are 30% more likely to want much more government action to redistribute wealth. Am I misreading your graph?
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38/ You keep saying that, but your graphs and underlying data do not support that.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993514970074755072 …
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39/ "once immigrants become citizens (that means that they can vote) then their opinions are the same as natives." Which table in your paper shows that,
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40/ This should be super easy
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41/ Which graph, specifically,
@AlexNowrasteh ? Please tell us, so that I can screencap it and we can all see how you were right and I was wrong the whole time.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993515890028269570 …Show this thread -
42/ Was it figure 9,
@AlexNowrasteh ? No, probably not. That shows that immigrants are much more likely to want government to do more taxing and spending.pic.twitter.com/H4MUMBjELr
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43/ Was it figure 12,
@AlexNowrasteh ? No, probably not. That shows that immigrants are much more likely to want government to spend more on welfare.pic.twitter.com/9kgGsvGCUA
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44/ We've already established that it wasn't fig 18, which shows that immigrants want government to reduce the difference between rich and poor via regulation and redistribution.pic.twitter.com/rkIGM8iv3S
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45/ ...and we know it's not fig20, which shows that immigrants want a stronger War on Drugs. So I'm left scratching my head.
@AlexNowrasteh keeps saying "look at the graph", but I can't figure out WHICH ONE.pic.twitter.com/S3wmkItOlf
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46/ Clarkhat was great. Can't wait to see him again at HUN V and compare notes about debating
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47/ BASED ON WHAT DATA,
@AlexNowrasteh ? Your whitepaper, your data. Just tell us what page and what graph. I'll screencap it, post it here, and then you'll have won.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993517500385103873 …Show this thread -
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51/ we don't IGNORE it,
@AlexNowrasteh - we are INTERESTED in it. That's why we keep asking for cites. What page in the white paper? What figure?https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993518379796443137 …Show this thread -
52/ Aha! OK, this is a valid answer. Thank you!https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993518615180861440 …
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53/ The problem is that there's selection bias. What you're saying is that of the entire population of immigrants, slice X is comparable to natives, but slice Y is not. OK, great. Two objections: 1) it's incorrect.
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54/ Look at your own figure 18. Left cluster: 20% of natives want government to reduce income differences, 23% of citizen immigrants so. Right cluster: 14% of natives prefer no gov action. 7% of citizen immigrants do These gaps are noticeable and have real policy implications!
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55/ Second objection: this is selection bias! You have not proven that waving a wand at an immigrant makes them only 23% likely to want income redistribution (as compared to a native at 20%).
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56/ You have proven that THOSE IMMIGRANTS WHO have the means / patience / education / lawyer fees to become citizens are only slightly more socialist than natives. A South African doctor is not a Mexican farm worker. "becomes citizen" is a filter.
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57/ I didn't misread anything,
@AlexNowrasteh . YOUR OWN GRAPHS show that immigrants - even the non-representative sub-sample that choose to become citizens - vote for more taxes and more welfare than do natives. You muted me because you got embarrassed and couldn't refute.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993572462016303104 …Show this thread -
58/ Issue is that Alex's data is cohort data, not a time series. He's picking the 30-40% of immigrants who do choose to become citizens and showing that they're SLIGHTLY MORE SOCIALIST than natives...and ignores the other 60-70%. Also >>> https://twitter.com/ap_janakiraman/status/993575223411654656 …
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59/ In other tables he shows that 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants (who are citizens by birthright) are markedly more socialist than natives. So immigration tends to create 2-3 generations of socialists citizen voters.
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60/ I liked to it three different times,
@AlexNowrasteh. Let's go for four, shall we? https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/immigrants-assimilate-political-mainstream …https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993575236883886080 …Show this thread -
61/ In his last 6 tweets, Alex has complained: - he's muted me because I tweet too much - I "rarely" link to his URL (just 3 times in 55 tweets)
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62/ Alex, I read the OED for fun. I am able to answer nerd questions like "what's a trigraph in the C programming language?" because I read the appendices. I read your paper. I READ THE DAMNED FOOTNOTES and went off and looked up some of the sources.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993583047118413824 …
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63/ So you're saying that my point that ON AVERAGE immigrants are markedly more socialist than natives is in your paper? Yes, agreed. I found it at several points in there. The only thing I'm asking is: given that, why do you support immigration? >>>https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/993585292325064704 …
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