“Many people worry that if we allow immigrants to the United States, they will make this country like the country they left, but I don’t think that’s so. People converge to the income of the neighborhood they moved to”
Do you not believe in cultural transplant theory? It happens even intranationally as well. Of course convergence goes both ways, but it’s undeniable that the general effect of immigrants from X nation will be to pull the areas they move to more towards X nation than the reverse. Whether this is through shared cultural behaviors or voting patterns. I think we see this given that immigrants tend to be considerably less pro-market than the median American, and even those who are as pro-market tend to vote for anti-market politicians. I think cultural inertia is a real and genuine concern here.
“Many people worry that if we allow immigrants to the United States, they will make this country like the country they left, but I don’t think that’s so. People converge to the income of the neighborhood they moved to”
Do you not believe in cultural transplant theory? It happens even intranationally as well. Of course convergence goes both ways, but it’s undeniable that the general effect of immigrants from X nation will be to pull the areas they move to more towards X nation than the reverse. Whether this is through shared cultural behaviors or voting patterns. I think we see this given that immigrants tend to be considerably less pro-market than the median American, and even those who are as pro-market tend to vote for anti-market politicians. I think cultural inertia is a real and genuine concern here.