Are these the kind of folks we want running our nation? Does the nation of immigrants (USA – The melting pot) now want only white folks so we become totally homogenous? Has King noticed children of immigrants perform FAR better in science?\u00a0 Are we really that fearful? Scared of shadows and people who don’t look exactly as we do? Really?<\/p>\n
Enter the “Age of Trump”. His candidacy and eventual election to the highest office in our land has made it acceptable for white nationalists and white supremacists to go mainstream.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post<\/strong> – <\/strong>Rep. Steve King\u2019s game of footsie with the white nationalist arm of conservative politics reached a new level over the weekend, when the Iowa Republican tweeted<\/span><\/u><\/a> new praise for the nationalist, anti-immigrant Dutch politician Geert Wilders.<\/p>\n
White nationalists praised<\/span><\/u><\/a> King\u2019s phrasing, with supremacist-du-jour Richard Spencer recording a video<\/span><\/u><\/a> shortly afterward lauding King\u2019s comments, a sentiment he followed up with a tweet of support Tuesday. Despite that, King stood by his comment, telling CNN<\/span><\/u><\/a> on Monday that he \u201cmeant exactly what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to get our birthrates up or Europe will be entirely transformed within a half century or a little more,\u201d King told CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo. He voiced his support for an American population that\u2019s eventually \u201cso homogeneous that we look a lot the same\u201d and added that he\u2019s \u201ca champion for Western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It\u2019s a carrier of freedom.\u201d In a radio interview<\/span><\/u><\/a>, King insisted that he wasn\u2019t talking about race, but that he was referring to \u201cour stock\u201d and that \u201cwe need to have enough babies to replace ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
King\u2019s home state of Iowa is one of the most homogeneously white in the country. But census data show that his district is one where nearly 10 percent of the children younger than 18 live with at least one parent who was born overseas.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a correlation between the foreign-born population in a congressional district and its politics. (Both of those things overlap with the percentage of the population that lives in urban areas.) If we use census data on the percent of the population that\u2019s foreign-born and compare it to Cook Political Report<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u2018s partisanship rankings for each district, the pattern is clear.<\/p>\n
King\u2019s Iowa district \u2014 the 4th \u2014 is embedded firmly in that clump of Republican-leaning districts that has a low foreign-born population. It\u2019s near the bottom among all of the districts, when ranked by this metric. His ranks 337th on this metric. (There are 435 districts, but not all had census data available.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More with graphs BELOW THE FOLD<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
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