Reaction against illegal influx in North Carolina?

Christopher writes:

I live in North Carolina, which is one of the fastest growing states in the nation, a lot of it by immigration. During the 1990s, the state’s population increased by 21 percent. This rapid growth has continued. As you well know, this is the deep South, where most of the nation’s blacks live, so racial struggle and strife have been continuous. You can imagine how odd it is to see the Hispanics flooding in from California and Texas, etc. There is a great deal of hostility to them among many of the whites I’ve spoken to. I even had a college teacher down here advise me to read Pat Buchanan’s book Death of the West. I moved to NC from an almost all white town in Virginia in 1999. There were almost no Mexicans here then, now they are everywhere. Most of the whites I’ve talked to about it do fear becoming a minority, and seem angry about it. I’ve noticed a definite shift in the wind here. I hope it goes somewhere this time, but I can’t let my hopes up too high only to be dashed again.

But listen to this, the local newspaper just yesterday ran a front page piece on how the county government is stopping virtually all taxpayer supported services to non-citizens. My own sister was told that she wasn’t the right color to get this kind of aid when she happened to need it recently (some people are very candid in the halls of the courthouse). You cannot get food stamps, welfare, etc without being a verified citizen now. At the same time, the Charlotte mayor Patrick McCrory is running for governor. He is a Republican and is running TV ads that feature his opposition to illegal aliens and their high cost to our state. I think he even calls them a “threat” in the ad. This may seem lukewarm to us, but it is a definite change of wind compared to just a few years ago when ANY criticism of immigration was not possible. Let us hope.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 11, 2008 12:23 AM | Send