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385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond

The Realignment

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The Importance of Race in Politics

Sally Kohn: I think that there's a real question about the immigration of refugee groups and Hispanic American groups. There was this expectation that Hispanic Americans who came to this country would racialize themselves differently than every other immigrant group that has ever arrived in United States from America, right? The en masse that what we see is at best, immigrant groups that arrive in US end up splitting about 50, 15 across the political spectrum; you look at African immigrants and you will see conservative voters and you'll see hyper liberal voters. But if you look at Filipino immigrants, you look at Vietnamese immigrants, you're gonna see a spectrum, right? If you look at Asian American groups that have arrived

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