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Metaphorical

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2. Demographics
Sun Oct 31, 2021, 12:25 AM
Oct 2021

Yes, America is becoming less white, not that it's ever been completely homogenous. Think Chinese laborers who were quite literally Shanghaied to become nearly slave labor on the railroads, Caribbean slaves brought in from Africa who were then sold into manumission in the Deep South, Mexican "migrants" who worked the farms, canneries and wharfs in this century for pennies on the dollar. The irony in all of this is that white, wealthy conservative businessmen were at the forefront of bringing over this cheap or unpaid labor, and the descendants of those businessmen are now shocked that the descendants of their forced labor are finally outnumbering them.



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