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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there isn't internal structural system inside CA that disenfranchises large masses of voters as much as the electoral college
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But if the analogy holds, that's not important. What's important would be if nonwhites were disenfranchised within states...
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also, VRA wasn't gutted. New restrictions affected 5M votes last election. How many in 2020?
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Cali didn't go blue because of overwhelming nonwhite vote. Many whites also abandoned GOP.
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many also moved out of CA to TX, AZ and Mountain West to escape nonwhite CA
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