Trump dangled before the electorate studies that project that people of color will outnumber whites by 204413 and that over half (50.2 percent) of the babies born in the United States today are minorities, and he inflamed the ever-present fear that foreigners are stealing our jobs. As a cure for these supposed ills, Trump's campaign offered to a primed and ready audience a cocktail of nativism, scapegoating, and racism; his campaign met with resounding success and helped polarize the nation along the very lines that colored his stump speeches.

QUESTION: How much did these demographic projections genuinely drive nativist appeal versus being exploited as rhetorical fuel?

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 63