In a little over 25 years, Caucasian Americans will become the minority, however, Fox News host Tucker Carlson questioned the growing diversity and blamed "elites" for changing America too fast. CNN called out "fake news."
Carlson began by responding to a National Geographic profile on the increase in Latinos in the U.S. He claimed that the population change in one Pennsylvania town "tells you a lot about demographics in America and how bewilderingly fast they are changing without any real public debate on the subject."
"That's happening all over the country," he went on. "It doesn't matter how nice the immigrants are. They probably are nice. Most immigrants are nice. That's not the point. The point is this is more change than human beings are designed to digest."
He then blamed diversity on the contempt of everyday Americans from "elites."
"And notice where this change is not happening: any place our leaders live," he continued. "They caused all of this with their reckless immigration policies and yet their own neighborhoods are basically unchanged...Our leaders are for diversity, just not where they live."
Carlson, according to CNN's Ron Brownstein, is "wrong on the key specifics. And even more wrong on the larger meaning." He noted that it was obvious Carlson illustrates the modern conservative fear of demographic and cultural changes.
Where Carlson faltered in his argument is his claim that the demographic change hasn't taken place in cities where politicians live. It's a difficult claim given every person in the United States lives in a Congressional district. However, Brownstein went line by line with examples of Democratic leaders who represent predominantly diverse districts. It's Republicans who seem to live in districts dominated by white people.
A full "80 percent of House Republicans represent districts where the white share of the population exceeds the national average of about 61 percent," Brownstine wrote. "Meanwhile, over two-thirds of Democrats represent seats where the non-white share of the population exceeds the national average."
Diversity in Democratic areas held true when looking at the 2016 presidential race. Hillary "Clinton won 16 of the 20 states where the foreign-born constitute the highest share of the population." Indeed, the places diversifying faster also went for Clinton, as did major metropolitan areas.
