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Why Do Less Educated Republicans Oppose Immigration Reform More Stridently?
National Journal ^ | June 9, 2015 | By Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 06/09/2015 12:55:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe less educated people in general are more opposed to illegal immigration because their jobs are more threatened than upper income earners.


21 posted on 06/09/2015 1:13:54 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: xrmusn

bttt!


22 posted on 06/09/2015 1:14:53 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DiogenesLamp

Well, we’re told all the time that it is a good thing that Democrats ride to power by flushing millions of ill-educated and ill-informed people to the polls, so I think this is a good thing.


23 posted on 06/09/2015 1:17:04 PM PDT by j.havenfarm
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe because they have the most to lose.


24 posted on 06/09/2015 1:18:00 PM PDT by monocle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Jobs.


25 posted on 06/09/2015 1:19:13 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Rich educated elites see them as cheap labor; less educated (but more street smart)conservative workers see them as under-priced competition in the job market.


26 posted on 06/09/2015 1:22:08 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: clintonh8r

Don’t you just love how left wingers like to call us racist,but never to our faces?
It’s easy to run your mouth when you don’t have to pay a price(like some of your teeth).


27 posted on 06/09/2015 1:23:40 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Less educated perhaps but they do have common sense.

Those are not doctors and lawyers crossing the border illegally.


28 posted on 06/09/2015 1:26:23 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I think the fact that academia is dominated by liberals is the primary reason here. All college students are brainwashed with far left bull$h!t.


29 posted on 06/09/2015 1:27:30 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe because they’re working at unskilled jobs and don’t want their jobs to be taken away by illegals who can be paid under the table.


30 posted on 06/09/2015 1:28:03 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Define education and what kind. More “educated” usually means they spent time in state run indoctrination colleges.

Less educated usually take more labor oriented jobs which illegals are taking.


31 posted on 06/09/2015 1:28:03 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: j.havenfarm
Well, we’re told all the time that it is a good thing that Democrats ride to power by flushing millions of ill-educated and ill-informed people to the polls, so I think this is a good thing.

It's a good thing that some of us haven't been brainwashed by Liberal college professors? Yes. I agree.

32 posted on 06/09/2015 1:28:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They never did answer the question “why”. Because it’s their jobs the illegals take of course. For those who say Americans won’t do them, in every job category that illegals flock to the majority of those job are still being done by American citizens.


33 posted on 06/09/2015 1:30:02 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Why Do Less Educated Republicans Oppose Immigration Reform More Stridently?

Because they haven't been brainwashed by wackjob liberal college professors?

It must have something to do with our penchant for Bibles, morality, guns and the rule of law.

34 posted on 06/09/2015 1:32:06 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Oh I don’t know... maybe they’ve lived and worked in the real world a little longer and weren’t sent to universities to party and fry their brains for 4 years on mommy and daddy’s dollars. Or maybe its because they aren’t allowed to get freebie benefits or perks from a lifestyle that resulted from their daddy and mommy paying for their college and they actually have to work for a living. Maybe its from being raised by decent respectable, law abiding, and God fearing parents not heathen hedonists? I don’t know....


35 posted on 06/09/2015 1:34:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: xrmusn
Hire me for a week and I will GIVE you that week. After that we will discuss wage and duties. You don’t like my work or I don’t like your Company, we will shake hands and all that is lost will be a week of MY time”

I like the way you did that.

I was enjoying being an unemployed bum. Living off my stash. An old friend called and asked for help with a problem Lexus. After fixing the car I got talked into a job. The inverse of your method....

36 posted on 06/09/2015 1:35:09 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

in this context “ Less Educated “ means insufficiently brainwashed.


37 posted on 06/09/2015 1:35:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a stLikeatement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: WayneS
Oh common now, put it in plain English for us poor little under edjumacated conservatives.
What you were really trying to say is, “you wouldn't cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire”.
I can tell you how to do it if you change your mind; my BS is in fluid dynamics.
38 posted on 06/09/2015 1:38:31 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The GOP voters with more formal education are more likely to be union workers like doctors and lawye rs who have built in job protection. The self employed who have to compete with illegals don’t really like it.


39 posted on 06/09/2015 1:39:47 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

this is founded on the assumption of educated = amnesty.

the media is goebling the public ala homosexual based marriage.


40 posted on 06/09/2015 1:41:55 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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