"It’s hard for them to share each others’ views on what’s going on. These older people grew up in largely white suburbs or largely segregated neighborhoods. Young people have grown up in an interracial culture."
Demographer William H. Frey, in A Generation Gap Over Immigration (NYTimes).
The article talks about how generations have had different exposures to immigrants. In 1970 only 4.7 percent of the country was foreign born and many grew up in segregated suburbs. Immigration is now at the level it was from the 1860s to 1920—the new normal is the old normal, creating a generation gap of expectations. Fascinating.
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