Olly Bosque

The Kansas beef processing counties are an example of a deliberate population replacement through immigration. Economics motivated a shift of cattle processing from urban centers like Chicago to areas nearer the herds and with useful local resources. Rather than pay wages that would attract Americans to Kansas, the processors relied on a new low caste of foreign workers. The act of building the plants there with those wages was effectively a declaration that an illegal workforce would staff them. The roles would be unfilled by design, things "Americans won't do", justifying immigration, much of it unlawful. In three decades, while the populations of these counties didn't grow by much, the existing cultural stock - mostly white, but also asian, black, and native - all declined in absolute numbers, with the gap exclusively made up by hispanics. All earlier diversity, including some initial asian migrant workers, was squeezed out as anyone with mobility or opportunity left for somewhere else. What remains is a company town optimized around a flow of infinite poor hispanics. And now, through birthright citizenship and time, that imported population determines a House race. Every time this happens a district is effectively removed from the scope of political debate and partisan ideology, and ceded to the base demands of ethnic headcount and interest. An extreme negative externality to the country not borne by the corporations that decided for it to happen.