Ya think? I bet if you look back in the lineage of 99% of Republican voters, you’ll find a legal immigrant. Think about it! :o)
my family votes conservative. Period. Every last one of them has linage as an immigrant.
immigration has no correlation to an increase in conservatism here, in fact quite the opposite
the early 20th century urban Democrat machines were founded on the immigrant waves that clustered in the urban Northeast and in Midwest mining and manufacturing areas which in turn along with poor rural whites elsewhere and blacks gave us FDR...without those waves FDR and what he destroyed here would have been a tough sell
and now the latino and third world waves we deal with today vote overwhelmingly Democrat
the only exceptions being those fleeing Collectivism and Totalitarians...and they are the first to see that what is happening here now is just how it started from whence they fled
unfortunately these groups are a tiny percentage of the immigrant wave that has forever changed demographics here since the early 1980s
PJ is funny, means well but like most NeoCons is hopelessly naive and somewhat PC
Immigration now is a conflict of race and culture as much as anything and I see no quick fix and I sure don't see them going conservative no matter how much we pander.
That's because this is a nation of settlers, not "immigrants." Settlers start out as immigrants, but they stay and help to build the nation.
The leftists are trying to obfuscate the distinction between the pioneers who came to America to build homes, states, and a country with "immigrants" who come to sponge off what the pioneers built before they leave for the next place.