"... [B]y far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists’ backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges. [snip]
"Put another way, the people alleged by authorities to have taken the law into their hands on Jan. 6 typically hail from places where non-White populations are growing fastest.
"CPOST [the Chicago Project on Security and Threats] also conducted two independent surveys in February and March, including a National Opinion Research Council survey, to help understand the roots of this rage. One driver overwhelmingly stood out: fear of the “Great Replacement.” Great Replacement theory has achieved iconic status with white nationalists and holds that minorities are progressively replacing White populations due to mass immigration policies and low birthrates. Extensive social media exposure is the second-biggest driver of this view, our surveys found. Replacement theory might help explain why such a high percentage of the rioters hail from counties with fast-rising, non-White populations." -- Professor Robert A. Pape, University of Chicago political scientist and director of CPOST, in today's Washington Post. When you hear Republicans (like Moscow Mitch McConnell) using racial signifiers like "woke" and "cancel culture" pejoratively, keep this concept in mind -- they want their frightened base to think that the "minorities" are coming for them, and that the Republican Party is all that's standing in the way.
