Counties That Experienced Rapid Diversification Voted Heavily for Donald Trump
(From last week, but still relevant)
Democrats were counting on a rapid burst of diversification in the U.S. fueled by immigration to help Hillary Clinton. But it may have helped put Donald Trump in the White House.
The more rapidly a county has diversified since the start of this century, the more likely voters there were to cast ballots for the Republican nominee, a Wall Street Journal analysis of voting results and census data shows. It appears to be one reason Mr. Trump turned some traditional blue states into red states, including Wisconsin.
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Small towns in the Midwest diversified more quickly than almost any part of the U.S. between 2000 and 2015. Most was a result of Latinos moving into heavily white areas, particularly in Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. Although southern border states have drawn a far greater number of Mexican and other Central American immigrants during this century’s immigration wave, their diversity changed little because they have long had racially mixed populations.
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Trempealeau County, Wis., a farming and manufacturing enclave in western Wisconsin, hadn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984. A rush of Latino immigrants into the town of Arcadia there for jobs packing chickens and making furniture helped transform the town from virtually all white to more than one-third Latino over roughly the past 15 years. Residents there said that helped draw voters irked about crowding in public schools to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
He won 54% of the vote in the county, while Mrs. Clinton took 42% of it.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/counties-that-experienced-rapid-diversification-voted-heavily-for-donald-trump-1478741076
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Thus, immigrants saved the city, took jobs that, no doubt, locals did not want.. Well logic and reasons have never been a mark of Republican voters.
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