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“Sir, William Frey compares current anti-immigrant sentiment in the US heartland to the anti-counter culture attitudes of the “silent majority” of the Nixon era (”The silence behind America’s immigration impasse”, May 3).
A better comparison would have been to Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy”, which appealed to whites angered by the progress that southern blacks had made in overcoming racial discrimination. When President Lyndon Johnson pushed for voting rights and other civil rights laws in the 1960s, he was well aware that this would lead to the permanent loss of the once “solid South” by his own Democratic party. But he did what was right”
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