Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters' Towns, Study Finds
Source: New York Times/Todays Global Media
April 6, 2021
When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession.
But instead he found something very different: Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.
If Mr. Papes initial conclusions published on Tuesday in The Washington Post hold true, they would suggest that the Capitol attack has historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War, he said in an interview over the weekend. In the shorter term, he added, the study would appear to connect Jan. 6 not only to the once-fringe right-wing theory called the Great Replacement, which holds that minorities and immigrants are seeking to take over the country, but also to events like the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 where crowds of white men marched with torches chanting, Jews will not replace us!
If you look back in history, there has always been a series of far-right extremist movements responding to new waves of immigration to the United States or to movements for civil rights by minority groups, Mr. Pape said. You see a common pattern in the Capitol insurrectionists. They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.
Read more: https://todaysglobalmedia.com/politics/fears-of-white-people-losing-out-permeate-capitol-rioters-towns-study-finds/
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marble falls
(57,204 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,064 posts)Texas had around 36 people I think who attacked the Capitol. Several of them were from Collin County north of Dallas that had seen more minorities moving into their neighborhoods. I can only surmise that the insurrectionists get angry when they see minorities moving into their neighborhoods because it means those same minorities can afford the same housing they can, which puts them on equal footingand thats the source of resentment.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)... cleaning their house, landscaping their yards, cooking their food (and they may never see those people except for busboys). Not exactly "living with 'them'".
I have family all over Texas, including Dallas/Ft Worth, and I live just west of Austin. I got a pretty good handle on Texans.
JI7
(89,264 posts)liberal areas tend to have high populations so even a small percentage of Republicans there outnumber Republicans in red areas.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
- Antonio Gramsci
nuxvomica
(12,442 posts)I hadn't considered that it was an allegory for the anti-democratic wave challenging liberal democracies today. In the story, a rip in the barrier between our world and other dimensions has appeared somewhere in Victorian London. Otherwise sane people start acting crazy and violent, and the cognizant, like Holmes and Watson, often refer to the arrival of monsters to our world.
LaMouffette
(2,039 posts)to keep the bottom 99 percent of us from noticing the great crimes and injustices of unregulated capitalism run amok.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)To the toxic brew.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)most white 'Muricans have much more in common with other workers--of any color or origin--than the rich 'puke politicians who pander to them. That's what the rich and powerful are so desperate to keep all of them from realizing. "Rugged individualism" and racism play right into their strategy.
LaMouffette
(2,039 posts)he is one of them.
I guess all he had to do was give them people and institutions to hate (immigrants, Jewish folks, Black folks, Muslim folks, and, of course, all Democrats [especially the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer], all liberals, and any news media that dared to convey any negative stories about Dear Leader), and they were like putty in his hands.
pidge
(274 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Todays Global Media
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Again.
pandr32
(11,611 posts)The best I've read that explains this problem from before the Civil War to now in a very readable way. It had been recommended once on Obama's reading list and so I nabbed it, and wow!
Grins
(7,228 posts)If someone gets anything that must mean I have less.
And anything includes property, voting, equal opportunity, etc. See professor Corey Robins books on conservatism, who goes into far more detail.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)To some people it is not just money and housing and tangible resources that are scarce, even love and status are part of a zero sum game.
God forbid some black person should be allowed to walk around free in this country and even achieve something with their life, 'cause somehow that mean less respect for me.
The lingering effects from 2008 was prosperity. Even the mango-demagogue said so.
nycbos
(6,038 posts)... he is better than the best colored man he won't notice you picking his pockets."
- LBJ
Mysterian
(4,593 posts)To help the ruling class stay in total control by convincing the gullible among the working class that scary minorities, foreigners and liberals are the enemy.
BumRushDaShow
(129,447 posts)after the Civil War and later, including all the Ellis Island ones during the early 20th century.
DownriverDem
(6,231 posts)I abhor white repub trumpers. I do all I can to make sure folks know I am not one of them.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)I mean really, come on. His whole campaign and presidency was based on racism from day one, I saw it, everyone here saw it and we are still dealing with this false narrative about "economic anxiety".
Peace
betsuni
(25,618 posts)Embarrassing that anyone's still believed the "economic anxiety" thing.
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)Most populations, and rurals in particular, remain in the same locale, generally, for many generations if not hundreds of years. So they are to an extent cultural enclaves with values that are unchanging.
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)Hmongliberal
(39 posts)Hmong American Asian, to be exact. And I am a first generation college grad attorney. My people didnt ask to come here. But when America was in deep with the Cold War and stuck its nose in what was going on during Vietnam, she came calling to my people. We were content living in the highland hills of Laos minding our business. But we also believed in freedom and liberty; and thus agreed to take up arms in support of America and her cause. The Hmong were heroic and did a damn good job fighting the communist during Laos secret war. Dont Fucking say my people didnt bleed and die for America, cause we did. And when America pulled out, we were persecuted and butchered like animals. So we had to come. And when we arrived, White folks said we needed to learn their ways, speak english, get jobs, pay taxes, etc, etc. And so we did all that. And now some Whites are using the excuse that weve become too successful? That we are gonna take over? WTF, is all I have to say. We dont want to take over. We are all a part of this experiment called humanity, and at the end if the day, we just want what the majority of sound minded people want in this country. Thats all.
oasis
(49,407 posts)Thank you for sharing that moving story.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)The Mouth
(3,164 posts)intheflow
(28,501 posts)Everyone is on about economic insecurity, but as I've said since 45's election, it's the racism, Stupid!
summer_in_TX
(2,752 posts)Defining what's going on correctly when there are competing rational explanations perhaps keeps the problem-solvers from going off track. And maybe it helps us keep folks from trying on excuses that are just distractions from the truth.
Seems to me, anyway.
BadGimp
(4,018 posts)"polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture."
How dare those people try to become equal to me!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that's why fear and ignorance WORKS on them
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Coulda knocked me over with a hammer.
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Random Boomer
(4,168 posts)They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.
Yeah, I have no problem with this at all.