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Really, St. Cloud xenophobes, where do you think your forebears came from? Oh wait, immigrants from Norway are welcome. Racism is so ugly. nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/… via @nytimes
But for others, the changes have fueled talk about “white replacement,” a racist conspiracy theory tied to the declining birthrates of white Americans that has spread in far-right circles and online chat rooms and is now surfacing in some communities.
“If we start changing our way of life to accommodate where they came from, guess what happens to our country?” said Liz Baklaich, a member of C-Cubed who unsuccessfully ran for St. Cloud City Council last year. “If our country becomes like Somalia, there is nowhere for us to go.”
In St. Cloud, some opponents of the refugee program have taken the introduction of non-pork options in the local public schools as an attack on their way of life.
