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 you are ignoring is the degree to which the GOP - much of which LOVES immigration - has become the Party of the South, which is made up of racist/nationalist voters (has been since before the CW). A majority of the party hated GWB for his attempt to pivot.
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This is like exactly what I do research on :)
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The GOP has been self-conflicting since '64 on this issue, although it dramatically accelerated in the 90s - Pete Wilson was the first GOP victim of GOP self-inconsistency.
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