browning of America

今日も米中間選挙に関する論説記事からの引用です。

共和党に対し数ポイント差でリードする民主党を牽制するトランプ大統領が持ち出すのは移民問題です。同氏の支持層である白人高齢男性を焚き付ける問題として移民ほど効果的なものはないからです。


(CNN) — "It's the economy, stupid." That famous phrase, coined by James Carville, one of Bill Clinton's strategists, was Clinton's guiding principle in his 1992 campaign to unseat President George H.W. Bush. This slogan reminded Clinton that the best way to win that election was to talk about the economy, since that issue moved voters. And it worked.

Flash forward to the 2018 midterm election and Donald Trump's guiding principle can be best summed up as, "It's the racism, stupid." Trump is playing on his supporters' worst fears of brown immigrants to scare them to the polls.

（中略）

How can Trump try to energize voters by telling them the economy is great when they don't have more money to spend? Trump gets that, so he's reverting back to playing on white anxieties regarding the browning of America -- which I like to refer to as racism. Or, for those who prefer the more academic term, fear of losing status.
(Dean Obeidallah. Trump is trying to whip up fear about the browning of America. CNN. November 4, 2018.)


キーワードとなるのが、


browning of America


です。

"brown"は茶色、褐色というカラーのことですが、"browning of America"は「褐色化するアメリカ」などと訳されることが多いようです。

つまり、アメリカ国内において、黒人やヒスパニック系の有色人種が占める割合が多くなってきているということを指しています。

移民問題をテコに票を獲得しようとしているというのはほとんど真実のようです。