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“I’m not saying we need to be 100 percent homogeneous. I’m not saying we need to be North Korea or Japan or anything like that. A return to 80 percent, 90 percent white would probably be, probably the best we could hope for, to some degree.”

Democrats, he says, assume that people of color constitute a homogeneous voting bloc whose loyalty can be best earned through acts that speak to their “racial identity,” like the 2022 appointment of a Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court.

Social scientists and other real experts have shown that contrary to these White dreams of a white utopia and “superior” “culturally and racially homogeneous” societies, “racially” and ethnically diverse societies and countries with a strong civil culture and shared values are actually more dynamic and economically vibrant.

In fairness, the three “blue wall” states are not entirely homogeneous; their urban centers are rightly celebrated for their diversity.

“There has been a long-standing belief from people who have not been LDS that Mormons are homogeneous in their beliefs and their voting and the way they enact living their faith,” said Brittany Romanello, a cultural anthropologist at Arizona State University who has studied Mormon identity and was raised in the church.