RACE and U.S. IMMIGRATION

"Duck and Cover" won't work for the "Demography Bomb"

When our ally in World War II, the Soviet Union, helped us defeat the Fascists, Russian immigrants were popular on the Bogardus Social Distance Scale in the United States.  By 1952, Russia had acquired "the Bomb", and the Cold War was on.  Russian immigrants to the U.S., and citizens of Russian origin fell significantly lower on the Bogardus scale (compare ratings in 1926 and 1956).

The deck has always been stacked against immigrants of color.  That is because our first law on immigration, the Naturalization Act of 1790, restricted citizenship to white persons.  Many other attempts aimed at limiting immigration by color, and  deporting   immigrants of color (Chinese Exclusion).

The Bogardus scale, which shows the "pecking order" of citizens, based on origin, as they measured themselves, shows a preference by all for "whites" over all persons of other origins.  The scale, re-measured in 1939, on college campuses, shows that "Negroes" at Howard University preferred whites ahead of all others, including themselves.

Fast forward to the Presidential campaigns of 2012.  The Repoobs know well the history above, evidenced by the campaign they're running.  Their anti-immigration rhetoric is targeted against non-whites.  They think they can "etch" away this reality by employing the likes of  Marco Rubio.  Either the mirrors don't work in Marco's house, or he thinks he can skate on his skin here the way his folks could in Cuba.

The Repoobs are "crazy like a fox" in their layering of anti-immigrant sentiment with anti-non-white sentiment.  Those campaigners most clearly evidencing fecal matter for brains are now claiming that Democrats are "Communists".  They're harking back to the Red-baiting campaigns of the 1950s.  These three layers of the campaign (race, inti-non-white-immigration, and anti-Communist) will be dog-whistle themes that hold their base in place.

Demographics are immutable!  Your jobs, your government, your health care, your personal wealth, your religion, and just about everything else are impacted by two demographic realities: people, all over the world, are living longer lives, and: non-white people have higher birth rates than white people.  The Repoobs are using these facts to do three things: grab total control of government in the United States, take control of all of the wealth in the United States, and use law-making to return their "enemies" to peonage.

Because of the Cold War, Red-Baiting, wholesale migration of Nazis to the United States after the War, the United States is woefully vulnerable to extreme-Right-wing political tactics.  Many of our politicians rose to political prominence (most notably Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan) by Red-baiting.

Rather than enabling future citizens of the United States to prepare for their future in a healthy way, the Repoobs are setting up "Armageddon" on many fronts.

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