Joel Kotkin has a great article in this morning’s Daily Beast, talking about some of the great things about America. Americans basically demonstrated moderation in the last election, and we are moving forward in so many ways. This gets covered up by all the partisan warfare over Trump, but there is so much reason to be hopeful.
“More than 840,000 green card holders became citizens last year, the most in a decade. Over 10 percent of the American electorate was born elsewhere, the highest share in a half-century….The ground-level integration of America—what my friend Sergio Munoz calls “the multiculturalism of the streets”—continues with ever greater mingling, epitomized by the rise and acceptance of interracial dating, up 40 percent since 2003, and marriage.
Most Americans initially supported the George Floyd protests but soon overwhelmingly rejected the violence and looting that accompanied them. Racial minorities, like other Americans, are increasingly heterodox in their political views.
In California, Asian voters also didn’t flock to Trump, but they helped reject an affirmative action measure bankrolled by the tech oligarchs. In heavily Asian Orange County, Biden won comfortably but the affirmative action measure lost 2-to-1, and two Korean American women replaced Democratic congresspeople. The measure was also crushed in heavily Latino interior counties,.”
Read more here:
America Isn’t Falling Apart. It’s Still the Land of Opportunity. (thedailybeast.com)