> A similar oft-repeated lie is that American farmers are all a bunch of Republican hillbillies who hate brown immigrants. > Around 2010, I attended a conferen

> A similar oft-repeated lie is that American farmers are all a bunch of Republican hillbillies who hate brown immigrants. > Around 2010, I attended a conference in Seattle for farmers in the Pacific Northwest. The main topic of discussion was how to increase legal immigration from Mexico so that they could have more farmworkers to pick the cherries and apples and mint and whatnot. These people were talking about goals of making people from Mexico and Latin America U.S. citizens in staggering numbers. Farmers are, for the most part, single issue voters: Whoever has the best plan to support agriculture and small businesses gets their vote.