replacement

“I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.”

Almost everyone I spoke with placed the blame on immigrants, holding the view, as Crusius did, that dark-skinned people from the global south are surging northward to overwhelm white Christians, what’s become known as the “great replacement theory.”

This fall, the great replacement theory and the immigration crisis at the border have vaulted to the top of many voters’ concerns.

Long before the great replacement theory became a dominant strain among mainstream conservatives — nearly 7 out of 10 Republicans have said the theory had merit — Tanton, while not using those words, began to define the term.

It would become a treatise for the far right and help solidify the great replacement theory into popular discourse.