(USAn here) As others have mentioned, it’s not really that something “has happened” — the country isn’t a monolith and there have always been folks that kick an

(USAn here) As others have mentioned, it’s not really that something “has happened” — the country isn’t a monolith and there have always been folks that kick and scream as they are dragged into the future. The European immigrants that settled those areas (often after violently displacing whoever was already living there) have relied on cheap labor since they arrived. Their influence on the USA’s moral compass is almost as old as the country itself, and includes literally going to war with the rest of the country to preserve slavery. They lost the war but that faction of USA politics never really died out, just shifted bit by bit into its current form.