Marcus Aurelius: Children are expensive.  Immigrants are cheap.  Too bad we're driving all the immigrants away.  Oh well.

Well, if the immigrants didn't STAY and have kids of their own, who were citizens, this wouldn't be a problem. Which is why you are seeing revivals of the Chinese Exclusion Act being floated around.

"Seeing demographic shifts" isn't new. This isn't surprising. This has been where the trends have been going for two decades. And moreover, folks in the GOP have been paying close attention to those numbers for a while, which is why they've been courting the racist d*ckbag portions of the population, because they are going to be angry when they fully realize that they're going to be under 50% of this country, which is easily within THIS decade.

This isn't theory, it's just math. And this illustrates that, fairly well, but it's not a new trend. Folks have known about this for a while. And the current sh*t stirring by the GOP with White Power Motherf*ckers and their water carriers who just want to be on the inside of the walls when sh*t goes down is their plan to retain power in the face of the Great American Melting Pot. Can't cut up more potatoes to throw in the f*cker, can't keep flavors from mixing, so better keep that pot separate, and serve the potatoes separately. And certainly not equally in presentation. Little bowl of stew on the left, and a ladle on as much butter and fixings on the potatoes, center of the plate. Even if you have a LOT more stew than potatoes. Even if the stew has more flavor and is just going to get more flavorful as time goes on, they've bet on Team Potato, and that's where they're going to put their focus. And malign anyone who might suggest that the potatoes would be just fine in the stew, equal and combining with it. Nope. Gotta keep that separate, because otherwise, how will anyone know that THEIR potatoes are the BEST? HOW?

The borking of the Census during Trump's term was deliberate. It will keep districts from being drawn that will represent better. And right now, you've got State legislatures working HARD at drawing them up to keep power as hard as they can, because they KNOW what the real numbers are, and they're going to keep those under wraps because as hard as they're working to game the system, they are looking at a dire situation. But they made their choice. Go for the easy scare money. Go for Team Potato. And they're going in hard.

Marcus Aurelius: hubiestubert: Which is why you are seeing revivals of the Chinese Exclusion Act being floated around.

Everything you said sounds about right to me.  I'd like to add that the bigots can't pick on black people like they used to, and America has always been horribly prejudiced against Asians.  To some degree, the bigots are substituting Asians for black people, because they can.

Well, that and the Chinese, EA and SEA are locking up a lot of industrial capacity. Better to keep those workers there, where they belong and cheap as heck, than here getting themselves 'Murican jobs. African-Americans are already citizens, so the ship has sailed there to keep the franchise entirely out of reach. Same with so many Hispanic Americans. Gotta do what they can to KEEP folks out, and Yellow Peril has worked in the past, so...