The small town I grew up in outside of Bakersfield was all farmers and Okies. It has been 99% Hispanic for about 20 years now, as is every farm town surrounding Bakersfield. It looks like you are IN Mexico.
Immigration is my issue. I’ve watched the town I grew up in become a barrio along with Bakersfield and the rest of California. I hate it. People from other states who haven’t lived it just don’t get it. And they won’t until it happens where they live. And it will.....eventually.
Legal immigration resulted in my town changing a lot over about 40 years.
Around 1980, it was 70% long term White. Starting around then massive numbers of people were moved here from overseas.
People saw them coming through Italy, with luggage that had my town’s name on it. Seriously!
These folks came here. Their older people were put on Social Security having never worked a day here in their lives.
Within 20 years, the population was 70% the former citizens of a foreign nation.
My town’s population is about 200k. It was changed in a couple of decades.
Even our legal immigration has been used against us.
To this folks try to play it off as if this is the way it has always been.
Not in modern times. Anything that displaces citizens to whole change the make-up of a town, is destructive to the culture there before.
I’ve heard this is taking place across the nation, all the time.
The goal seems to be to destroy our culture.