If we look at the little it takes to buy off say a politician, buying off a white worker, "poor" or not quite poor, it's kind of obvious that many whites are making a very pronounced choice between what the article calls "intangible" benefits. There's a comfort zone of culture that's being maintained. I've seen it in other countries, where "we may be dirt poor, but at least we're white".

Additionally, the Democrats/left have been tone deaf on immigration for a long time. Immigration is not a right. It's a drain on public resources. It has an effect on local cultures in a very pronounced way. We all know water is good, but not in the quantities that 3 hurricanes last fall brought. Yet anyone asking for an actual immigration policy from the left would be disappointed - it was simply "as many as we can get to replace you racist white crackers", or roughly to that effect. Yes, more concern for Dreamers & migrants than for out-of-work crackers on opioids. The latter apparently created their own problems, whereas we apparently created much of the lawlessness and poverty and corruption south of the border as well - you start to recognize the "heads I win, tails you lose" logic in all of this. It was only post-9/11 when Bush started acting like the biggest asshole and blocking & sending back immigrants that the biggest threat of sustained legal and illegal Mexican & Central American immigration subsided, but not before the trend was in.

As it's all euphemistically put, America will be majority "people of color" by 2044. What it really means is "Mexican and Central American population growth will make most of America look like Vegas by 2060". Like, who decided this? what the fuck, I have a Spanish degree, from interest in culture and language and literature, including the leftover and shifting Spanish influence in the US, but I figured 1 1/2 continents are Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking, and never imagined *THE MOST POINTED AND SUCCESSFUL US GOVERNMENT POLICY OF MY LIFETIME WOULD BE THE HISPANIFICATION OF THE US*. That's right, we often can't do anything else right, can't get reasonable legislation to fix problems like healthcare and pollution and police violence through Congress, and blow trillions on stupid self-defeating wars, but through it all bilaterally, we are turning "whites" into a minority - which overall actually means not more black power, not a lot more Indians or Japanese or Egyptians or Lesothans or Armenians - it means that in the age of rocket ships and airplanes, the only real measure of who should make up the future of America as our birthrate stagnates is "who's immediately to the south of us", meaning mostly 2 or 3 countries. They couldn't have done better if they *planned* on invading.

And it's even more amusing and annoying to hear the liberal rationalizations of how the mass importation of a race that colonized and butchered and raped and enslaved (80% of American slavery in the Americas was in Latin America) and exploited the local people over centuries and even now largely lives in a morass of ineffective poverty and corruption is somehow a great leap forward over these exploitive racist white people (which lumps together Irish and Estonians and Italians and Dutch and Greeks and Swiss and Andorrans and Russians and Albanians and Slovenians and Moldovans and Norwegians and Jews and Maltans - but that's not racist - all those white people look and act the same, no?).

Okay, the up side is Hispanics coming to the US often simply end up acting "like other Americans", which is probably true enough if you're from California or Nevada or New York or even Oregon and Chicago, but if you're from Tennessee or Ohio or Nebraska, nope, that assimilation is a lot lot slower. Did anyone fucking think a moment about this in all these decades? Who approved this? Look at that southeast & Atlantic boardwalk trend in the map below and think of how the people there are reacting to the changes.

And if you start looking at side related issues like education, why is out-of-state college tuition like $30K/year for many *state* schools, not counting *living expenses*? (yes, it's 2018 - going to school across a state border is rather obvious since we don't stay put in 1 state for life like before). How many recently arrived "people of color" are getting what percent of federal & state educational aid at the expense of existing/established US families of whatever color? [yes, that's right - existing black and Asian families are also impacted by the limited resources]. Is it so hard to see that this demographic/immigration carelessness creates a huge Us vs. Them fracture in our society, which should at least be broached publicly in a sane, non-condemning way?

When the white working class feels that they are suffering, minorities need to fear the reaction. Trump and his cohorts are racists. It is easy for the white working class to overlook this fact. When economic fears are used to explain the votes of the white working class, those explanations fall on deaf ears in the black community. It is not selfish to promote programs that benefit the black community, in fact it is the most rational response.. Forming coalitions with other outsiders like Latinos, Asians, LGBTQ, etc. is one way to counter the white vote. Trump got the majority white vote in a myriad of categories. This will be an interesting series. The observations of the white working class voting behavior are well known, but seeing them laid out in print saddens me.