When Republicans started to believe in racial bloc voting - when they stopped believing that nonwhite people could ever be persuaded to vote Republican - they started to see immigration as an invasion. This explains why immigration is now at the center of partisan conflict.https://twitter.com/SenatorBrakey/status/1056540826317283328 …
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What will disrupt this bad equilibrium, and save American politics from being an eternal race war? Either: A) More white voters will grow disgusted with the GOP approach and defect, or B) The GOP will find some non-immigration-related issues to attract more Hispanics and Asians.
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As long as both parties see elections in terms of racial bloc voting - where the only way to win is to increase turnout among your own racial blocs or suppress turnout by the other party's racial blocs - American politics will not improve, and the country will decline. (end)
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Isn't it a bit patronizing to think that the only way Hispanics and Asians could have been courted in the recent past is through immigration amnesty ?
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Obviously there are many other issues that mattered (and matter) to Hispanics and Asians, but it's very very hard to win people over when you're also trying to boot their relatives from the country.
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UK shows a different example. I am an Asian immigrant in the UK. The immigration regime here is reasonably liberal but it is very strict for family immigration. But I would wager that the Conservatives still get a greater share of Asian votes here than Republicans get in the US.
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And of course this is a close relative of the neo-Nazi theory that drove yesterday's shooting
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It's an electoral equivalent. Instead of "immigrants are a plot to replace the white race", it's "immigrants are a plot to replace a GOP-leaning electorate".
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Yes. And the formal line between those two formulations is porous and not carefully maintained or policed.
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(Just like the NC GOP discussing it's voter id law and using race and partisanship essentially interchangeably)
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And yet folks like Cruz are getting 40% of the Hispanic vote.
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