{"id":1196444,"date":"2022-01-07T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196444"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:36:16","slug":"study-ties-january-6-riot-to-rejection-of-demographic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-ties-january-6-riot-to-rejection-of-demographic-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Ties January 6 Riot to Rejection of &#039;Demographic Change&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-ties-january-6-riot-to-rejection-of-demographic-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Public rejection of \u201cdemographic change\u201d fuelled the January 6 \u201cinsurrection\u201d in Congress, says the chief author of a study into the rioters\u2019 backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net\/cpost\/i\/docs\/Pape_-_American_Face_of_Insurrection_(2022-01-05)_1.pdf?mtime=1641481428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;declined to consider if the federal government fuelled the rejection of \u201cdemographic change\u201d by welcoming economic migration for the last 40 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net\/cpost\/i\/docs\/Pape_-_American_Face_of_Insurrection_(2022-01-05)_1.pdf?mtime=1641481428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats looked at&nbsp;716 individuals who have been charged with crimes in the riot. Chief author Robert Pape <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/01\/06\/trump-capitol-insurrection-january-6-insurrectionists-great-replacement-white-nationalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the results in&nbsp;ForeignPolicy.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our national survey shows that the No. 1 belief among insurrectionists\u2014shared by fully 75 percent of respondents\u2014is the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d of the electorate by the Democratic Party and that this idea is also the most important separator of people in the 21 million [riot sympathizers] from the general population.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The study is a useful effort by social scientists to study the participants at the riot. In contrast, the vast majority of media reports merely chart the riot\u2019s progress on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The study reports the backgrounds, ages, education, and homes of the arrested people, saying \u201cthe insurrection as a political movement evolved without the leadership of an extreme group and attracted individuals who are not necessarily extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17153630\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Man-Sentenced-for-Entering-Capitol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17153630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Man-Sentenced-for-Entering-Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Allard Hodgkins carries a large red &quot;Trump 2020&quot; flag inside the Senate chamber during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.FBI\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A \u201cTrump 2020\u201d flag is carried inside the Senate chamber during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. (FBI image)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But it also suggests that the rioters\u2019 were motivated by a racially-influenced reaction to migration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Given the overwhelming whiteness of the population of insurrectionists, the finding that counties with higher rates of demographic change are also counties that sent more insurrectionists \u2026 <strong>is consistent with<\/strong>&nbsp;[emphasis added] a political movement that is <strong>partially driven<\/strong>&nbsp;[emphasis added] by racial cleavages and white discontent with diversifying communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However,&nbsp;many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/immigration-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls show<\/a>&nbsp;that opposition to government-directed migration is driven by economics, not race.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show most Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-immigration-policy-opinion-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">want to like individual immigrants and immigration-in-general<\/a>&nbsp;but strongly oppose labor migration.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/30\/harvard-harris-poll-5-in-6-americans-want-to-end-immigration-from-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/01\/14\/poll-americans-want-companies-hire-americans-before-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">variety<\/a>&nbsp;of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/13\/ipsos-poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-want-immigration-moratorium-for-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a>&nbsp;do&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/05\/poll-swing-voters-hugely-oppose-2020-democrats-promising-more-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/04\/24\/poll-trumps-opponents-applaud-his-jobs-for-americans-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/31\/poll-shows-public-support-trump-migration-poicy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broad<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/05\/28\/business-poll-backfires-shows-public-wants-less-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/16\/exit-polls-3-in-4-voters-want-less-immigration-during-and-after-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blue-collar labor migration<\/a>&nbsp;and the inflow of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/08\/06\/ipsos-poll-public-opposes-migrant-workers-by-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary<\/a>&nbsp;contract workers&nbsp;into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/05\/gop-legislators-help-indias-visa-workers-to-take-jobs-from-u-s-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white-collar jobs<\/a> sought by young U.S. graduates. This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/05\/survey-americans-underestimate-quiet-public-opposition-to-legal-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/12\/16\/pro-migration-groups-accelerate-hate-campaign-against-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/12\/10\/only-41-percent-voters-trust-republicans-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-establishment<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/04\/29\/washington-post-poll-hispanics-are-the-strongest-opponents-of-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiracial<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/07\/11\/poll-suburban-women-strongly-back-donald-trumps-migration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cross-sex<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/24\/survey-hispanic-americans-most-opposed-to-illegal-immigration-defunding-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-racist<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/04\/27\/study-black-working-class-opposes-mass-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class-based<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/02\/22\/poll-democrat-sex-split-visa-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bipartisan<\/a>, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTechWorkers\/status\/1377363222005575680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rational<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/05\/11\/harvard-poll-swing-voters-want-biden-to-embrace-trumps-border-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">persistent<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/01\/22\/rasmussen-poll-liberals-and-wealthy-welcome-caravan-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognizes<\/a>&nbsp;the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the left-wing Equis Research group reported on December 13 that 45 percent of Latinos want to reduce legal immigration:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 New poll paints a very different picture of Hispanic voters than what&#8217;s often peddled in the media:<\/p>\n<p>\u2611\ufe0f 69% support Trump&#8217;s tax cuts<br \/>\u2611\ufe0f 55% support more spending on border security<br \/>\u2611\ufe0f 51% support limiting refugees and asylum<br \/>\u2611\ufe0f 49% support reducing illegal immigration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jKfdbFtMmg\">pic.twitter.com\/jKfdbFtMmg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiancarloSopo\/status\/1470912243554566146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pape also tries to shield the federal government from blame for conflict over migration by suggesting the public concern is merely \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/01\/06\/trump-capitol-insurrection-january-6-insurrectionists-great-replacement-white-nationalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conspiracy theory<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many [of the 716 arrestees] were middle-class professionals motivated by the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d conspiracy theory \u2026&nbsp;the central idea is that majority white populations are being replaced by minorities and that liberal leaders are deliberately engineering white demographic decline through immigration policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGovernment policy is changing the population,\u201d responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theorists may claim government leaders met \u201cin a secret lair in the Alps and planned that out,\u201d he laughed, \u201cbut the fact that policy is engineering these [demographic] developments is not conspiracy \u2014 it\u2019s just a description of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, for example, the federal government allowed or invited roughly 1.5 million migrants \u2014 or almost one migrant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every two American births<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s migration policies have had a predictably huge impact on the United States for the last 100 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15382782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/capitol-riot-lectern-getty-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15382782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/capitol-riot-lectern-getty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lectern of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is carried through the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building after a mob stormed the building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For example, in 1924, Congress curbed reduced migration, setting the stage for the emergence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/05\/joe-biden-immigrants-built-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-trust, high-wage, middle-class society<\/a> in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>But since the mid-1980s, the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=site%3Abreitbart.com+neil+munro+lankford+Immigration&amp;atb=v302-1__&amp;ia=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">bipartisan<\/a>&nbsp;federal government has exploited the public\u2019s generosity towards migrants to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/extraction-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extract tens of millions of migrants<\/a>&nbsp;from poor countries so they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/census-biden-drives-up-foreign-born-population-across-swing-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boost U.S. investors and businesses<\/a>&nbsp;as workers, consumers, and renters.<\/p>\n<p>That&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/12\/20\/washington-post-low-wage-employers-struggle-after-cheap-labor-bubble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic strategy<\/a>&nbsp;is harmful to ordinary Americans: It cuts their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/12\/bloomberg-opts-h1bs-take-two-three-new-tech-jobs-each-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">career<\/a>&nbsp;opportunities and their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/04\/08\/elite-academics-hide-amnesty-wage-pain-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wages<\/a>&nbsp;while it also raises their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/16\/new-yorks-mayoral-rivals-vow-cheap-housing-plus-more-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">housing costs<\/a>. The strategy also curbs Americans\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/07\/11\/president-trump-wins-big-on-secret-meatpacking-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">productivity,<\/a>&nbsp;damages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/05\/gop-legislators-help-indias-visa-workers-to-take-jobs-from-u-s-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innovation by professionals<\/a>, and widens&nbsp;regional wealth&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/13\/zuckerbergs-data-says-amnesty-gives-economic-windfall-coastal-democratic-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The State of California will spend $28 million to help Joe Biden bring migrants to the U.S., after resisting Trump&#8217;s immigration enforcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/moa8FeXVs4\">https:\/\/t.co\/moa8FeXVs4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1368223717667508224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mass migration also shrinks Americans\u2019 political <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS946US946&amp;oq=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.10228j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">influence<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/survey-elite-imposed-migration-is-transforming-national-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radicalizes<\/a> their democratic, compromise-promoting civic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/search\/?s=%22white+supremacy%22#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=%22white%20supremacy%22&amp;gsc.page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture<\/a>, and allows elites to ignore&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diseases_of_despair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">despairing Americans<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JorgeAl49986803\/status\/1439791277571145737?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">bottom of society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By 2021, a consensus of 77 percent of Americans said the nation\u2019s society and culture were decaying, and only 10 percent believed the nation was improving, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/06\/poll-shows-public-consensus-the-nation-is-declining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6 poll<\/a> by the Trafalgar Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public rejection of \u201cdemographic change\u201d fuelled the January 6 \u201cinsurrection\u201d in Congress, says the chief author of a study into the rioters\u2019 backgrounds. 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