Investigators have considered a racist ideology to be a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. The “great replacement theory” claims there’s a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
The mainstream view in the U.S. suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration so more like-minded potential voters replace “traditional” Americans, according to Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
In a poll released last week, The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 1 in 3 Americans believe an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gain.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
