This analysis ties directly into my column. Red counties desperately need immigrants, but have trouble attracting them, partly because of hostile politics www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Migrants landing in swing states, and across the country, are gravitating to counties that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. Much like in previous generations, migrants are headed to places with ...
All the same reasons that their children leave and never return...
I find this chart unhelpful (as I do most charts using maps) because it’s hard to see the thing you’re looking at *as a % of the overall population of the area*. Like 1,000 immigrants would be a tiny dot but would have a huge impact on a town of 10,000 people.
I remember reading a story a year ago or so where a small red town had a huge economic resurgence thanks to Biden's bills that created a ton of manufacturing jobs but they hated it because now there were too many people and the diner was busy.
Mussolini & Hitler: I’m going to create full employment for my chosen population by creating tons of currency on a giant military and hiring labor FDR: I’m going to contain Fascism and create tons of currency for a New Deal & direct employment to build public goods & services
As ye sow, etc. etc.
they wouldn't mind having them if they didn't expect to have rights and fair treatment (they want slaves)
So many people in small towns can't grasp what Lampedusa said: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Old timers get nostalgic for when the town had more youth, more businesses, more foot traffic downtown, but resist anything that could bring something like that back.
Fun fact: racism is expensive.
Same people: “keep migrants out” also “food is too expensive”!
Wasn't there a story recently about the heavily depopulated areas of the former GDR now being strongly anti-immigrant? I think of how boiling water freezes faster than cold, because the hot water molecules leave more quickly, which makes the remaining water much colder than it would be otherwise.