Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment: California, Texas, and the 1994 Election

Monogan, James E.; Doctor, Austin C.

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“…Many members of Christian communities in California clearly did find it possible to integrate their Christian identity with denial of services to immigrants and to prioritize nationalism ("taking care of our own") over hospitality. Although Proposition 187 was overturned in court, and many thinkers have viewed it as a catalyst for political action that brought about more proimmigrant policies (Monogan and Doctor 2017), the fight over 187 demonstrates that the majority of Christian leaders who spoke out against the policy were not able to move significant numbers of Christians to their vision of hospitality.…”

Section: Religious Opposition To Proposition 187mentioning

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Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities

Alexander

2022

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The ideology of white Christian nationalism has become increasingly visible in the United States. This ideology intersects with public debate over immigration, posing a threat both to immigrants’ well-being and to American ideals of democracy. This essay considers how religious leaders in primarily white Christian communities addressed two historical moments related to immigration in the U.S.: Proposition 187 in California, and the “travel ban” instituted by the Trump administration in 2017. Christian leaders who supported Prop 187 and the ban, and those who opposed the two policies, tended to talk past each other when they discussed the issue of immigration and these specific policies. Pro-187 leaders used rhetoric of economic damage and pro-ban leaders used rhetoric of national security, whereas anti-187 and anti-ban leaders used rhetoric of hospitality and nondiscrimination. Christian leaders who opposed these policies attempted to apply the moral teachings of their religious tradition, but ethicists and religious leaders who wish to fully engage in conversation about immigration in the U.S. should incorporate discussion of economic and security concerns into their consideration of hospitality, in order both to address anxieties and to pull the veil back on racial and religious discrimination that hides behind these anxieties.

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Section: Religious Opposition To Proposition 187mentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities

Alexander

2022

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“…CA is now considered a solid Democratic state, and changing demographics contributed to the change. Research on CA examines the influence of 1994's Proposition 187 and its impact on political mobilization of the growing Latino population (Barreto, Ramírez, and Woods, 2005;Bowler, Nicholson, and Segura, 2006;Hui et al, 2018;Korey and Lascher, 2006;Monogan and Doctor, 2017). NM and NV have also emerged as Democratic leaning states.…”

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Red to Purple? Changing Demographics and Party Change in Texas

Huerta

Cuartas

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. Texas is regarded as a safe Republican state, yet in recent elections Democrats have gained electoral ground. This study investigates if generational replacement and demographic changes are leading to an increase in Democratic identification, with the potential to create an environment for increasingly competitive elections. A competitive Texas will have national political implications. Method. Party identification and ideology are analyzed, with line graphs and linear regression, using public opinion surveys of Texans from 2009 to 2019. The impact of generation cohorts and demographics are the main independent variables of interest. Results. The findings demonstrate that younger cohorts of white Texans are less likely to identify as Republican and older cohorts of white Texans are most likely. All cohorts of Texans of color are likely to identify as Democrats. Conclusions. Generational and demographic changes are leading to an increase in Democratic party identification and a decline in Republican identification. The mobilization by parties of young Texans, who are trending toward Democrats, and people of color is critical to the future of Texas politics.Overlooked in the fallout of the 2020 presidential election was a result from Texas-Joe Biden lost the state by 5.6 points. While it was a loss, it was an improvement over Hillary Clinton's 9-point 2016 loss and Barack Obama's 16-point loss in 2012. During the 2018 midterm elections, in a campaign that drew national attention, Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, came much closer to unseating incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz than seemed possible in a solidly Republican state (lost by 2.5 percent). In addition, in 2020 Texas Democrats maintained congressional and state legislative gains from 2018; however, Democratic goals of winning control of the state house and gaining congressional seats went unfulfilled. The last time Texas Democrats won a statewide election was in 1994 and the last Democratic presidential candidate to win the state was Jimmy Carter in 1976. Texas has the second most Electoral College votes (40 in 2024 as as result of the 2020 Census). If it becomes competitive, Texas will have a major impact on national politics.Is Texas (TX) becoming more competitive? One explanation for the improving results for Democrats is that macro Democratic party identification is increasing as a result of changing demographics in the state. The percentage of the population composed of people of color (POC), especially among Latinos, constitutes a majority and is growing. 1 There is an expectation that this will lead to political party change because Latinos and

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“…As we pointed out, the use of nativist rhetoric, specifically anti-immigrant pronouncements by elected government officials, is on the rise. And there is considerable evidence suggesting that politicians articulating these themes can reap electoral benefits (Dekeyser and Freedman, 2018; Hooghe and Dassonneville, 2018), at least in the short run (Monogan and Doctor, 2017). Between January 2018 and January 2019, President Trump tweeted about his proposed border wall, a clear use of nativist anti-immigrant rhetoric, 179 times, and tweeted about borders, more generally, 391 times.…”

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Nativist policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions

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Reinprecht

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Firms in the USA rely on highly skilled immigrants, particularly in the science and engineering sectors. Yet, the recent politics of immigration marks a substantial change to US immigration policy. We implement a conjoint experiment that isolates the causal effect of nativist, anti-immigrant, pronouncements on where skilled potential-migrants choose to immigrate to. While these policies have a significantly negative effect on the destination choices of Chilean and UK student subjects, they have little effect on the choices of Indian and Chinese student subjects. These results are confirmed through an unobtrusive test of subjects’ general immigration destination preferences. Moreover, there is some evidence that the negative effect of these nativist policies are particularly salient for those who self-identify with the Left.

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Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment: California, Texas, and the 1994 Election

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities

Proposition 187 and the Travel Ban: Addressing Economy, Security, and White Christian Nationalism in U.S. Christian Communities

Red to Purple? Changing Demographics and Party Change in Texas

Nativist policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions

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