It's
long been a pattern to "divide and conquer" the American voting public
by playing up fears of each other. See Rick Perlstein's Nixonland for an account of how the Republican "Southern Strategy" consisted almost entirely of divisive tactics...
...and Karl Rove (whose beloved stepfather was gay, and who
put gay marriage initiatives on the ballot in 11 swing states in a
recent presidential rate) has made slicing and dicing the electorate
into a fine art.
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