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   PHOENIX (AP) — With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the   
   leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about 1 in 3   
   U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born   
   Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.   
      
   About 3 in 10 also worry that more immigration is causing U.S.-   
   born Americans to lose their economic, political and cultural   
   influence, according to a poll by the Associated Press–NORC   
   Center for Public Affairs Research. Republicans are more likely   
   than Democrats to fear a loss of influence because of   
   immigration, 36% to 27%.   
      
   Newly arrived immigrants are barred from voting in federal   
   elections because they aren’t citizens, and gaining citizenship   
   is an arduous process that can take a decade or more, when they   
   are successful at all.   
      
   Those views mirror swelling anti-immigrant sentiment espoused on   
   social media and cable TV, with conservative commentators like   
   Tucker Carlson exploiting fears that new arrivals could   
   undermine the native-born population.   
      
   In their most extreme manifestation, those increasingly public   
   views in the U.S. and Europe tap into a decades-old conspiracy   
   theory known as the “great replacement,” a false claim that   
   native-born populations are being overrun by nonwhite immigrants   
   who are eroding, and eventually will erase, their culture and   
   values. The once-taboo term became the mantra of one   
   conservative candidate in the recent French presidential   
   election.   
      
   “I very much believe that the Democrats — from Joe Biden and   
   Nancy Pelosi, all the way down — want to get the illegal   
   immigrants in here and give them voting rights immediately,”   
   said Sally Gansz, 80. Actually, only U.S. citizens can vote in   
   state and federal elections, and attaining citizenship typically   
   takes years.   
      
   A white Republican, Gansz has lived her whole life in Trinidad,   
   Colo., where about half of the population of 8,300 identifies as   
   Hispanic, most with roots going back centuries to the region’s   
   Spanish settlers.   
      
   “Isn’t it obvious that I watch Fox?” quipped Gansz, who said she   
   watches the conservative channel almost daily, including the   
   prime-time Fox News Channel program “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a   
   major proponent of those ideas.   
      
   ‘I very much believe that the Democrats — from Joe Biden and   
   Nancy Pelosi, all the way down — want to get the illegal   
   immigrants in here and give them voting rights immediately.’   
      
   — Sally Gansz, Trinidad, Colo.   
   News Corp, parent of MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones, and Fox   
   News parent Fox Corp. share common ownership.   
      
   “Demographic change is the key to the Democratic Party’s   
   political ambitions,” Carlson said on the show last year. “In   
   order to win and maintain power, Democrats plan to change the   
   population of the country.”   
      
   Those views aren’t held by a majority of Americans — in fact,   
   two-thirds feel the country’s diverse population makes the U.S.   
   stronger, and far more favor than oppose a path to legal status   
   for immigrants brought into the U.S. illegally as children. But   
   the deep anxieties expressed by some Americans help explain how   
   the issue energizes those opposed to immigration.   
      
   “I don’t feel like immigration really affects me or that it   
   undermines American values,” said Daniel Valdes, 43, a   
   registered Democrat who works in finance for an aeronautical   
   firm on Florida’s Space Coast. “I’m pretty indifferent about it   
   all.”   
      
   Valdes’s maternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Mexico, and   
   he said he has “tons” of relatives in the border city of El   
   Paso, Texas. He has Puerto Rican roots on his father’s side.   
      
   While Republicans worry more than Democrats about immigration,   
   the most intense anxiety was among people with the greatest   
   tendency for conspiratorial thinking. That’s defined as those   
   most likely to agree with a series of statements, like much of   
   people’s lives is “being controlled by plots hatched in secret   
      
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