The Dangerous Parallels Between Nazi Germany and Greg Abbott's RNC Speech

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1. I suspect one of Abbott's fears is Texas' demographic shift during the last couple of decades.

I suspect that one of the reasons for border-state Republicans making immigration an issue is because of the demographic changes taking place in Texas and other border states. Euro-Americans (Americans primarily of European descent) were once the majority in Texas and Euro-Americans still provide the majority of the Texas Republican Party's membership.

That's not true anymore. Latinos are now the largest plurality in the Lone Star State and more and more of them are of voting age each year. A part of this shift might be due to immigration, but a lot more of it is due to natural increase: Latino babies born to American citizen-parents. I suspect that that's something the Radical Right doesn't want to believe in: instead, they want to believe that the demographic shift is solely due to immigration and that if those Latino folks would just go away, Texas would be majority-white again and the Texas Republican Party would rein supreme.

That isn't going to happen. Not unless some of the worst elements in the Texas Republican Party get their unspoken wishes and police and National Guard expell Texas Latinos from Texas and the rest of the US, whether they possess native-born citizenship or not.