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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
that's right. I'm not sure that using scaremonger visual aids based on faulty definitions is the way to approach a complex issue.
The graph he uses, where he makes quite the display of unfolding the last bright red segment. If you listen to him, he makes it clear that the third/fourth generation descendants of immigrants still qualify as (red) immigrants. By that logic, if he'd started his chart just 20 or 30 years earlier, several of us here (including me), and/or our spouses would be counted as red on the charts.
His thing about gumballs is a clever visual tool but unrelated to immigration.
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Exactly. If he started his chart at any point in time in history it would look "shocking". All those damn Italians and Irish would be owning America.
The other cheap trick was cutting off the graph at 200M. If he had it start at 0, the green would dominate and the red would barely catch your attention until the final unveiling (which goes back to the first point).
Any economist in America will tell you how vital immigration and the infusion of low-skilled labor has been to fuel economic expansion.