[quote=harvey][quote=CA renter]This split isn’t due to the less formally educated people being “dumb rubes,” […][/quote]
You do know that the article was about Alabama?[/quote]
I’m referring to the issue of low/low-mid SES people who oppose illegal immigration, massive influxes of refugees, etc. It doesn’t matter if they live in California, Alabama, England, Germany, Italy, China, etc. It also doesn’t matter if the influx comes from Mexico, China, India, Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc. The reasons are almost always the same: the native people in the lower-SES groups are the ones who are displaced when these demographic shifts occur, and that’s why they so strongly oppose these policies. It has far more to do with economics and political/social power than it has to do with “racism” and “xenophobia.”
