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To: epicure who wrote (200482)	9/7/2012 3:49:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541997

It's mostly because he's a not liberal black. He is black, tho, so it would prolly be worse if he was liberal.

To: epicure who wrote (200482)	9/7/2012 4:52:03 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541997

Yes, that's where I'm headed. Though I'm deliberately staying a bit vague because there can easily be multiple motives for membership. However, I think the one overriding is the nativist bit, or to be a bit more specific, whether the government is run by "people like us." I'm scrambling the meaning a bit of the term "nativist." Or expanding it. It's generally used to apply to political movements based on opposition between native born folk and immigrants. I'm using it to apply to something closer to xenophobia. en.wikipedia.org. Isn't wikipedia terrific!! Xenophobia is defined as an intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries[1] or as an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.[2] It comes from the Greek words ????? (xenos), meaning "stranger," "foreigner," and f?ß?? (phobos), meaning "fear."[3] Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.[4] Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".[5]