people underestimate how conservate immigrants can be

underestimate the influence of religion

and underestimate how far America has come in removing inequalities, even most Republicans now support all the civil rights changes enacted over the past 5 decades. This is why being told they are racist made them feel upset.

I do blame Dems for bringing in Identity Politics, it was an active choice in the 70s, it wasn’t about civil rights, it was about targeting voting blocks. What it did do was undo a sense of national identity. People weren’t Americans anymore, they were now Black or White or Latino, etc etc