I have a new column at America magazine (yes, it's been a while!) on the similarities between the "Great Replacement Theory" so popular on Fox News and the "not in my backyard" opposition to new housing that can be found in even the most liberal and Democratic areas. An excerpt:
Variants of the great replacement theory have been present on a smaller scale in towns and in neighborhoods all over the United States, including in deep-blue Democratic areas. You can find it wherever people say that new housing, inseparable from the new people it would attract, would ruin the “character” of their community. Or when environmentalists adopt the zero-sum logic of the great replacement theory to argue that any population growth in an area represents harm to the people already living there.
You can read the whole thing here.
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