Here's how Trump's anti-immigrant message broke through with non-white voters

Donald Trump made notable gains with voters of color despite his openly racist and xenophobic campaign messaging. “That racial baggage is one that we’ve carried in this country and through American politics for a long time,” said journalist Paola Ramos, who said many Latino voters have been taught to “idolize and romanticize whiteness." “I think has now been finally revealed in very clear ways through Trumpism.” Many Latino voters are also disconnected from the immigration experience and hold xenophobic ideas themselves, according to producer and author Dash Harris. "Inevitably, particularly if you’re part of certain ecosystems, you’ll start believing that rhetoric.” Trump's racism was a "dealbreaker" for many Asian American voters, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, the executive director of Asian American and Pacific Islander data at the University of California at Berkeley, but that demographic has "shifted more conservative" on undocumented immigration. Black support for Trump doesn't indicate any sort of "realignment," according to Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, because 85 percent of Black voters backed Kamala Harris, but instead reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the economy under president Joe Biden.