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I find this topic interesting. If only because I think I have noticed some of the psychological disfunction that folks suffer from in certain areas that lead them to believe there is like this invasion of foreigners.

So, first you grow up in some place where its all poor white folk, with white folks being the Doctor you go to, your teachers (first women through maybe 5th grade) and then mixed men and women. White folk still.

You complete in sports, and except for the occasional black athlete, in football, maybe some sprinters and hurdlers in track, and arrive at college. White folks everywhere, a rare Asian or black person maybe (in my case a cadre of Saudi Arabians sent to the US for engineering, but they were anomalous). And this was the world through the beginning of ones professional career.

I compare that to my kids growing up. The percentage of non-whites throughout public schooling, the white doctors are harder to find, same with dentists, foreign languages and clicks of non-white folks speaking something other than English are common even in the 1st-6th grade environment. Primarily Spanish, but certainly a reasonable number of Asians. Found a white dentist, he sold his practice to some nice Chinese married dentists who aren't him. My general practitioner is mostly white I think, with some Hispanic background of some sort. Really nice. Gay, which doesn't bother me...but wouldn't that be a surprise to folks 40 years ago and make them jumpy?

In a polyglot world, the places that remember the white haired male doctor that took care of the town, what must they think when he is replaced with a gay Asian woman? Same with other professionals, when they hear foreign languages at their local bank...from both customers and employees?

I am just jeakous when I bump into different languages, and wish I was bilingual. But it is just as easy to imagine folks I grew up with being afraid that any two foreigners are speaking in a language they don't understand...and making fun of the white gringo listening in.

I think some of this idea explains why my parents went MAGA in 2016, but the main impetus was the feeling their party had left them behind with their inclusive shenanigans. But they had flinched when they moved to be with grandkids elsewhere for awhile, a culture shock with all the new stuff, languages, attitudes. It lasted 2 years, then they moved back to where they (and I) had lived going back in to the 70's.

But all these things I see, when comparing to yesteryear to now, fits in nicely with the idea that folks want something back they THINK they once had....and it is because they are uncomfortable with the change. They want Mayberry back.

Not that either party will give it to them, but both will play into the charade with words I imagine, slogans, claims. MAGA just got there first, and in the Trumpsters 2nd term are pushing it to the extremes.