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Easy.
There is a huge portion of the country, about 1/3, that knows they aren't living the American dream, but they work hard and don't understand why.
Then, someone tells them something slightly true. That there's not enough pie to go around (semi-true), and that the reason there's not enough pie is all the immigrants and freeloaders who aren't working and are taking handouts (false).
What they aren't told is there could be enough pie to go around, if the top 1% was willing to share. They aren't. And they now control ~35% of wealth in the USA.
And then the top 1% uses that extra capital to tell that 1/3 of people that their Hispanic neighbor is the problem.
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Not a chance.
This is how it plays out locally: I live in a low cost of living town in Northeast PA. Our area has historically not been very diverse. Over the past 20 years they've ben building a lot of huge warehouses and distribution centers in our area to take advantage of the low cast of living. The industrial parks in the area all competed with each other to land these "job-creating" warehouses, and they competed by offering tax-free deals for x number of years.
So they build these warehouses, and when they hire, everybody apart from the 4 managers are hired part time, and can only work up to max of 28-30 hrs per week, to prevent the company from owing them any kind of health care retirement. Mostly, the only people desperate enough to move here for those jobs are immigrants, and since there's no attachment to one warehouse or another, as soon as there's slightly better offer, they move right on out. Our schools are getting hammered because their tax revenue hasn't increased, but instead of of 1-2 new students per year in a grade level, they're dealing with 5-6 new kids per WEEK, and a good number them come in with little to no English. Frequently, the families have to separate to get here, and that just makes everything even harder.
Now, if you're not paying too close attention, you look at the area compared to 20 years ago, and think,
The "nice" thing is if you own a warehouse, you don't even need to spend any money "convincing" people to blame immigrants, you just make a bunch of money, pay them as little as possible, and watch the nightly news talk about all the danger and crime in the area.
This pretty much
Once you get down to the bottom half they are all together possessed of only a single digit share of wealth between them