GenZedong

I can answer some of these from my perspective.

2. The way I see it, it is impossible to ignore the contradictions of capital for the human psyche, so something must be used to explain them. Because of the lack of education, corporate funded media etc. etc., the blame falls on immigrants and poor people. Also because of the widespread notion of the "middle class" nobody really sees themselves as the lower class.

3. I am not born in the empire but i do live in it. And i really don't like the exceptionalist attitude. Being ML doesn't make you a "chosen one" or the lucky few. In terms of common thread, it's material conditions necessary to be dissatisfied with status quo+ interest in history/politics.

To your "blue collar or working class" question...

That is basically the whole conception of whiteness and race. During the pre-industrial European settling of Turtle Island, there was not really a shared "white" identity. Instead, you had Portugese, Spanish, British, French, German, etc. migrant laborers who all had significant differences with each other and eventually started to see that they had common interest with the enslaved African population. Look up Bacon's Rebellion if you're not familiar with it yet. While sadly an anti-indigenous partnership between settler and slave, it still was notable for the solidarity between the two laboring classes and resulted in the ruling government of Virginia to strengthen and solidify the racial caste system through legislation.

Racism was very much imposed on and ingrained into the working class from the emergence of capitalism and we continue to deal with our collective hangover from it.

For the second one I think you might be overstating that this is the case regardless of demographics. Look up the demographics in a lot of American towns. There are plenty of poor midwestern working towns that have like 1 black person in them, for a lot of American built environments conscious separation by race was a guiding principle of planning and zoning. I think it's actually very easy and normal to develop solidarity across ethnic lines if you actually share a neighborhood and workplace with many kinds of people but American cities and towns were often built specifically to foreclose that possibility.

I think American history also gives a good illustration of the reality that racism and bigotry are not class delineated: the ruling classes here were historically the most invested in creating and propagating beliefs that made them superior to everyone else, many of the most vocal and 'thoughtful' racists in American history were bourgeois.

To say nothing of the fact that it's very easy for a rich white community in California to vocally be anti-racist while offering no resistance to the racist policies being pursued there. We might be giving the wealthy and educated libs more credit than they deserve by taking them at their word.

Regarding the second question, the capitalists has done everything they can to mask class as defined by their relation the the means of production.

And the main way that they’re doing this is to intensify inter-class contradictions to further sub-divide the working class. You’re not working class, you’re black, or you’re Hispanic, or you’re a woman, or you’re a red neck, or you’re a democrat, etc.

bigotry is heavy in America because these differences are sold as being the defining factor of who you are so YOU DO NOT DEVELOP CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS.

You will never see the working class described as a class in mainstream media. There will never be any mention or coverage of labour movements. Instead, literally every other thing will be put in the forefront.

Scots-Irish people on Turtle Island are actually not necessarily Irish at all. We are Scottish people who colonized Northern Ireland and then came over from there to Turtle Island. There's the possibility of mixing between Scots and Irish but we are some of the most settlers to ever settler.