{"id":10436,"date":"2009-10-19T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:35:19","slug":"searching-for-whitopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/10\/19\/searching-for-whitopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Whitopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-101909\/2009_10_19_benjamin.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-101909\/2009_10_19_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.demos.org\/images\/pubs\/whitopia_240.png\" alt=\"whitopia\" \/>In addition to the furor over the Federal government&#8217;s 287 (g) program, another controversy has erupted over immigration in Congress. Two Republican Senators are attempting to include a question about citizenship in the 2010 Census to prevent population numbers in states from being inflated by the presence of undocumented immigrants. Both senators are from Utah, where my next guest spent time &#8220;Searching for Whitopia.&#8221; Rich Benjamin, a journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos, spent two years in the fastest growing and whitest communities in the nation, include St. George, Utah, to uncover the reasons why so many white Americans are moving into small towns and so-called exurbs. In the course of his research, Benjamin also lived in Forsyth County, Georgia, Carnegie Hill, New York, and Warren County, Ohio. While there he went house hunting and golfing, attended anti-immigration meetings, local clubs, poker nights, prayer groups, all in an effort to learn the social and political implications of these Whitopias as he calls them. Rich Benjamin&#8217;s book is called Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Rich Benjamin, journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos, author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program In addition to the furor over the Federal government&#8217;s 287 (g) program, another controversy has erupted over immigration in Congress. Two Republican Senators are attempting to include a question about citizenship in the 2010 Census to prevent population numbers in states from being inflated by the presence of undocumented immigrants. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}