Thread by @wesyang

Both MAGA and BLM are anticipatory reactions to the coming to political consciousness of Asian and Hispanic immigrants; the new groups will not conform to the strictures of either movement, they will do something different as yet unspecified

But that both Asians and Hispanics voted against Prop 216 at rates higher than whites in California is one key indicator of where this might tend

That policy was based on a country organized around a white supermajority that owed a historical debt to a small black minority. The new immigrants that arrived after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — after the defeat of de jure white supremacy — alter the balance

Prop 16