6/On the left, many want to believe Trumpism is just the same old racism that has defined America from the start, blah blah blah...
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7/People are ignoring the possibility that a sudden influx of newcomers simply scares the bejeezus out of people in homogeneous communities.
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8/It scares them personally ("Oh God, look, a person in a headscarf! What's this country coming to?!"). And it scares them electorally.
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9/"What if all these new people gang up on us and vote to take away our stuff?" <-- I suspect this is a big fear too.
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10/Eventually, though, this freakout subsides. As it already mostly has in California. As it did when the Irish & Germans came in the 1800s.
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11/This suggests that instead of tarring Trump voters as racists, we should help them over the "hump" of getting used to the newcomers.
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12/It won't happen automatically. We need INTEGRATING INSTITUTIONS that bring people together.pic.twitter.com/6GYEGDvKQP
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13/The strength of our integrating institutions will mean the difference between whether the U.S. becomes California, or Arizona.
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14/In the long run, though, there's lots of reason for hope. Integrating newcomers is always hard. But America is generally good at it.pic.twitter.com/Bd8RTuYA5M
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15/The more we pay attention to the "xenophobic freakout" story, the quicker we can start to intentionally counter it. (end)
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I think your interpretation of @emilymbadger's Prop 187 comparison is more optimistic than the one I would make.
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there isn't internal structural system inside CA that disenfranchises large masses of voters as much as the electoral college
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