In the 1970s, the population of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was 97% White — by 2020, it plunged to 31%, a factor researchers say may have contributed to many Americans’ desire to participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection. @tonydokoupil investigates @CBSMornings
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings excellent reporting
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings White flight since WW II, but the anger/resentment has grown. Maybe people more often flew FROM non-whites TO a better life, but the second part gradually disappeared.
@vladduthiersCBS @Eviljohna @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings White residents willingly left a town and caused them to became insurrectionists?
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings "Change is inevitable, growth is optional." I love that quote.
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings The research was released in January of this year, over 6 months ago. Why did it take so long for CBS news to develop a story on 6 month old research?
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings What White people refuse to see is the U.S. has NEVER been a white majority. WHITE folks simply have always refused to acknowledge the Native American or Black population. Not to mention the Asian population that was Boated in to build this country!
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings It's just a matter of deciding whether you want to be the bug or the windshield. Trump appeals to those who have chosen to be the bug.
@vladduthiersCBS @JohnJHarwood @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings A perfect example of how this country is being overtaken: close the steel mills, move the manufacturing offshore, abandon and make life miserable for the people in these towns, and then sell them a solution through conservative media that the liberals and immigrants are to blame.
@vladduthiersCBS @tonydokoupil @CBSMornings Michelle is right. Some of the same people who are resisting change are from groups that were discriminated against years earlier.