group psychology that identified health risks on welfare mothers, Mexicans, gangs, and other abject others who undermined the system. We are the guardians of our own health, the group mentality implied. But socialism and communism undermine us, cost us, and ultimately link us… to them. The narrative then constructed barriers of inside and outside. If you was born here, the message conveyed, with here implying not just the United States but also the white, anti-communist South, then you was born here.
