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Date: October 25, 2018 11:27PM
In case you don't remember eighth grade social studies class, there were virtually no immigration laws in America until 1924.
This was only for "whites" of course -- depending on what the shifting classification of "white" meant at particular point in time. Remember the "White Australia" policy?
Forty years later, the laws changed again in the 1960s to help the relatives of the previous wave of (mostly Irish and Italian) immigrants -- who were grandfathered in now as "white."
Now that white christians are a minority in America, they are using every trick in the book to stop both legal and undocumented immigrants and to suppress the votes of anyone else who does not look like them.
If you are a christian person of faith, you should think long and hard about what is done now in the the name of your faith.
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Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article/79/2/147/4825283Abstract
Why did Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election? Social scientists have proposed a variety of explanations, including economic dissatisfaction, sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. The current study establishes that, independent of these influences, voting for Trump was, at least for many Americans, a symbolic defense of the United States’ perceived Christian heritage. Data from a national probability sample of Americans surveyed soon after the 2016 election shows that greater adherence to Christian nationalist ideology was a robust predictor of voting for Trump, even after controlling for economic dissatisfaction, sexism, anti-black prejudice, anti-Muslim refugee attitudes, and anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as measures of religion, sociodemographics, and political identity more generally. These findings indicate that Christian nationalist ideology—although correlated with a variety of class-based, sexist, racist, and ethnocentric views—is not synonymous with, reducible to, or strictly epiphenomenal of such views. Rather, Christian nationalism operates as a unique and independent ideology that can influence political actions by calling forth a defense of mythological narratives about America’s distinctively Christian heritage and future.