[illuminate]

"and now Hispanics immigrating at record rates driving out white Americans)."

How on earth is the former causally linked to the latter?

[philwelch]

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But people can (and do) build that kind of narrative all the time, which was my real point. The reality is always more complicated.

[illuminate]

I see. I still don't think white flight is a valid comparison to military operations and bulldozing settlements.

[philwelch]

It's not even a valid comparison to the Mexican-American war, that's the point. You can oversimplify vastly different issues down to the same narrative if you want to, which is why these simple narratives tell us nothing.