Signalling and Revealed Preferences

It is a debate among whites, to get those obsessed with status to wake up. Non-whites with conservative views still vote against the white person's party (the GOP) so there is no debate there. The division is racial.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/antiracism-norms-and-immigration/

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-26/yes-trump-is-making-xenophobia-more-acceptable